Student problems:(problems of student health)
Abstract
Student problems(problems of student health) SAGE Publications, Inc.1973DOI: 10.1177/001789697303200202 R.J.Still Department of Student Health University of Leeds Perspective Perhaps we should begin by putting Student Problems into perspective in relation, for example, to the health of the general population. There has been a Student Health Service in Leeds now for over twenty years, and from this a kind of perspective has emerged. Although students, falling mainly within a limited age- range, are comparatively free of some types of illness - for example, degenerative diseases, the burden of which falls increasingly heavily on an ageing population - it is nevertheless true that students seek medical aid no less frequently than the general population, and the physicians who care for them have no sinecure but, on the contrary, need constantly to be on the alert to take note of the many interesting clinical conditions which they present. My colleagues who have previously been engaged in general practice find that work among students falls into a different pattern, but is no less, but rather more, exacting and demanding. There are nearly 'i 0,000 students in the University at present, of whom about 7,000 are registered with the University doctors for National