Tuesday, September 20, 2011

What is a health promoting school?

A health promoting school is one that constantly strengthens its capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working. 
health services
School Health Program

A health promoting school:

  • Fosters health and learning with all the measures at its disposal.
  • Engages health and education officials, teachers, teachers' unions, students, parents, health providers and community leaders in efforts to make the school a healthy place.
  • Strives to provide a healthy environment, school health education, and school health services along with school/community projects and outreach, health promotion programmes for staff, nutrition and food safety programmes, opportunities for physical education and recreation, and programmes for counselling, social support and mental health promotion.
  • Implements policies and practices that respect an individual's well being and dignity, provide multiple opportunities for success, and acknowledge good efforts and intentions as well as personal achievements.
  • Strives to improve the health of school personnel, families and community members as well as pupils; and works with community leaders to help them understand how the community contributes to, or undermines, health and education.

Health promoting schools focus on:

public health
Health Edication

 

  • Caring for oneself and others
  • Making healthy decisions and taking control over life's circumstances
  • Creating conditions that are conducive to health (through policies, services, physical / social conditions)
  • Building capacities for peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable ecosystem, equity, social justice, sustainable development.
  • Preventing leading causes of death, disease and disability: helminths, tobacco use, HIV/AIDS/STDs, sedentary lifestyle, drugs and alcohol, violence and injuries, unhealthy nutrition.
  • Influencing health-related behaviours: knowledge, beliefs, skills, attitudes, values, support.
Trinity Care Foundation is a Non Governmental Organization focusing on Craniofacial Deformities, School Health and Outreach Programs in Karnataka, India. We require your support to implement these Community Health Programs in Government Schools and Colleges in Ramanagara, Kolar and Bangalore Rural Districts, Karnataka, India. 
 
Kindly Contact us, Email: support@trinitycarefoundation.org 

School Youth Health - WHO Website link

Trinity Care Foundation Website link.. :- Implementing School Health Programs in Bangalore, India.


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2 comments:

  1. Peter JonesApril 16, 2012 at 2:23 AM

    Hi Tony,
    Struck by your work in schools and need to educate towards health literacy.
    I’m interested in an eclectic mix across health, education and informatics in the context of health care and the ‘new literacies’ esp. health literacy. The generic, free and open access conceptual framework Hodges' model may be of interest.
    Many thanks, Peter @h2cm
    Blog at “Welcome to the QUAD”
    http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
    Hodges Health Career – Care Domains – Model
    http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
    h2cm: help 2C more – help 2 listen – help 2 care
    http://twitter.com/#!/h2cm
    P.S. There are some SCIENCE resources inc. anatomy / physiology and research here:
    http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/linksTwo.htm

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