School Health program is imperative to provide basic health care to school population throughout thecountry. Such program focuses on health concerns of target population and determinants of health likesanitation, hygiene, nutrition, safe drinking water, gender and social concern. Effective implementationschool health increases the efficacy of other investments in child development, ensures good current andfuture health, better educational outcomes and improves social equity and all the services are provided forin a cost effective manner. Of the several components of school health, the following are the core. Screening of general health, assessment of anemia/nutritional status, visual problems, hearingproblems, dental check-up, common skin conditions, heart diseases, physical disabilities, learningdisorders, behavior problems, etc. Treatment of common morbidities among children• Preventive and promotive activities on common childhood problems• Adolescent and behavioral healthThe World Health Organization promotes school health programs as a strategic means to preventimportant health risks among youth and to engage the education sector in efforts to change theeducational, social, economic and political conditions that affect risk. The WHO emphasizes that aneffective school health program can be one of the most cost effective investments a nation can make tosimultaneously improve education and health. Many of current and future leading causes of death, diseaseand disability (cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lung diseases, depression, violence, substanceabuse, injuries, nutritional deficiencies, sexually transmitted diseases and helminth infections) can besignificantly reduced by implementing thorough school health program.Accordingly many countries introduced school health program by which they have broughtsatisfactory impact on children’s health and school performance.In Ethiopia, in the last twenty years several schools are constructed in every corner of the countrygiving opportunity for majority of the school age children to attend school. Additionally promotive worksare done to avoid missed opportunities. As a result, nearly allof school agechildren are now on regulareducation.Several communicable, nutritional and congenital health problems are prevalent among schoolchildren. As an example, one of the studies in this issue of EJHS showed that over a quarter of schoolchildren had active trachoma. School health program helpaddress these basic health needs of thesechildren. The two ministries- Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health need to discuss and agree onthe necessity and some basic issues. A national level guideline and implementation plan is required sothat uniformity and equity is maintained. If started, the School Health Program will reach over 30,000public and private schools covering over 25,000,000 students all over the country.The current issue of EJHS contains sevendiverse (origin and topic) original articles, three of themdealing on communicable/transmittable diseases, two dealing on newborn and child health, one onadverse drug reaction and the other on systems. Additionally, it contains a review on importance ofexercise during pregnancy and three case reports discussing some rare and unusual manifestation.I invite readers to go through them as they contain new evidence to our day to day practice.