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    The WHO Global School Health Initiative aims to promote health and education activities at schools globally. It strives to improve the health of students, staff, families, and communities through schools. A Health Promoting School views health holistically and builds it into all aspects of school and community life. Key features include engaging stakeholders, providing a safe environment, teaching health skills, offering health services, implementing health policies, and improving community health.

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    The WHO Global School Health Initiative aims to promote health and education activities at schools globally. It strives to improve the health of students, staff, families, and communities through schools. A Health Promoting School views health holistically and builds it into all aspects of school and community life. Key features include engaging stakeholders, providing a safe environment, teaching health skills, offering health services, implementing health policies, and improving community health.

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    Who Global School

    Health Initiative
    -Shrutika Chavan

    What is WHO Global School Health


    Initiative?
    Mobilise and strengthen health promotion and
    education activities at the local, national, regional and
    global levels
    Improve the health of students, school personnel,
    families and other members of the community through
    schools
    Goal: Increase the number of Health Promoting Schools

    Health Promoting Schools


    A Health Promoting School views health as a physical
    social and emotional well being.
    It strives to build health into all aspect of life at school
    and in the community.

    Features of HPS - 1
    Engages health and education officials, teachers and
    their representative organisations, students, parents,
    and community leaders in efforts to promote health,
    with
    Families and community groups involved in school
    Community services, businesses and organisations linked to
    the school
    School/community projects and outreach
    Health promotion for school staff

    Features of HPS - 2
    Strives to provide a safe, healthy environment,
    including

    Sufficient sanitation and water


    Freedom from abuse and violence
    A climate of care, trust and respect
    Social support and mental health promotion
    Safe school grounds
    Opportunities for physical education and recreation

    Features of HPS - 3
    Provides skills- based health education, with
    Curricula that improves students understanding of factors
    that influence health and enable them to make healthy
    choices and adopt healthy behaviours throughout their lives
    Curricula that include critical health and life skills, a focus on
    promoting health and well being as well as preventing
    important health problems, and information and activities
    appropriate to children's intellectual and emotional abilities
    Training and education for teachers and parents

    Features of HPS - 4
    Provides access to health services, with
    Services (screening, diagnosis, monitoring growth and
    development, vaccination, selected medications or
    procedures) that may be most efficiently provided in the
    school setting, depending on school resources and mandates
    Partnerships with local health agencies that will provide
    services
    Nutrition and food safety programmes

    Features of HPS - 5
    Implements health promoting policies and practices,
    such as
    An overall policy supported by school administration and
    management as well as teaching practices that help create a
    healthy psychological environment for students and staff
    Policies on equal treatment for all students
    Policies on drug and alcohol use, tobacco use, first aid and
    violence that help prevent or reduce physical, social and
    emotional problems

    Features of HPS - 6
    Strives to improve the health of the community by
    Focussing on community health concerns
    Participating in community health projects

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