Student health

School Doctors

The school doctor is a specialist with knowledge of children and young people.

The school doctor works both with  individual students and health promotion work in close collaboration with the school nurse.

The school doctor’s main tasks:

  • Contributes with medical knowledge about  physical and mental health as well as learning and development
  • Receives students who need to be followed up after health visits and health talks or for other school-related reasons
  • Prescribes, if necessary, supplementary vaccinations to those students who are not vaccinated according to the Swedish program for vaccinations