Abstract:
The purposes of this study was to identify and compare the problems and needs in school health program administration as perceived by the administration of secondary schools under General Education Department in the Eastern Region. The schools were categorized into three groups according their sizes. A self-administered questionnaire covering four main areas of school health program administration, including, health project organization health environment, health services, and health education was developed and sent to as randomly selected school administrators. The collected data were statistically analyzed utilizing means, standard deviations, F-test and Neuman Keuls tests. The findings were as follows : 1. The administrators perceived that the problems and needs in all aspects of the school health program administration were in the medium level, except the problems of school health environment was perceived at low level. 2. The administrators of the three different size schools perceived that the problems in the administration of school health program were statistically significant at the .05 level, except the problems of school health environment was not statistically significant at the .05 level. The needs in the administration of school health program were not statistically significant at .05 level, except the needs of school health service was not statistically significant at the .05 level