this presentation speaks about the importance of health education in schools and different schemes for school health education.

1. Importance of school
health education
Present by Navya Antony

2. What is school health education?
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3. Why should care about health
education?
Health
education
Skills, knowledge and
positive attitudes
Emotional
health
Social
health
Physical
health
Mental
health

4. WHO
• An effective school health programme can be one
of the most cost effective investments a nation
can make to simultaneously improve education
and health
• WHO promotes school health programmes as a
strategic means to prevent important health risks
among youth and to engage the education sector
in efforts to change the educational, social,
economic and political conditions that affect risk.

5. WHO global school health
initiative strategies
• WHO's Global School Health Initiative
seeks to mobilise and strengthen
health promotion and education
activities at the local, national,
regional and global levels.
• WHO's Global School Health Initiative, launched
in 1995.
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.

6. 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.
• Implements policies and practices
• Strives to improve the health of school personnel,
families and community members as well as pupils

7. School health and youth health
promotion: facts
• Worldwide, 5% of all deaths of young people
between the ages of 15 and 29 are attributable to
alcohol use. In some countries, up to 60% of all
new HIV infections occur among 15-24 year olds.
• Worm infections are the greatest cause of disease
among 5-14 year old children.
• Vitamin A deficiency is the single greatest cause
of preventable childhood blindness.
• Iodine deficiency is the single most common
preventable cause of mental retardation and
brain damage in children.

8. • Injury is the leading cause of death and disability
among school-age youth.
• One out of two young people who start and
continue to smoke will be killed by tobacco-related
illness.
• Worldwide, 5% of all deaths of young people
between the ages of 15 and 29 are attributable to
alcohol use.
• In some countries, up to 60% of all new HIV
infections occur among 15-24 year olds.

9. Health promoting schools focus on:
• Caring for oneself and others
• Making healthy decisions and taking control over
life's circumstances
• Creating conditions that are conducive to health
• Building capacities for peace, shelter, education,
food, income, a stable ecosystem, equity, social
justice, sustainable development.
• Preventing leading causes of death, disease and
disability: helminthes, tobacco use,
HIV/AIDS/STDs, sedentary lifestyle, drugs and
alcohol, violence and injuries, unhealthy nutrition.
• Influencing health-related behaviours

10. Preventing leading causes of premature
death, disease and disability
• Many of today's and tomorrow's leading causes of death,
disease and disability can be significantly reduced by
preventing six interrelated categories of behaviour, that are
initiated during youth and fostered by social and political
policies and conditions:
• tobacco use
• behaviour that results in injury and violence
• alcohol and substance use
• dietary and hygienic practices that cause disease
• sedentary lifestyle
• sexual behaviour that causes unintended pregnancy and
disease

11. 1. To make pupils aware of their health problems and needs.
2. To promote pupils' lifestyle through the inculcation of correct
health concepts and behavioural patterns, with the ultimate objective
of enabling the pupil to make the best possible choice for his or her
optimum health and total well-being.
3. To improve the school and family environment.
4. To enhance the role of pupils in conveying health messages to the co
mmunity, and in giving active support to such national health
programmes as their country may be launching at the time.
Less developed countries may have different
priorities than those in more developed
countries.

12. LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
PRIORITIES
•
- Malnutrition
- Worm infections
- Hearing and sight impairments
- Timing births and safe motherhood
- Breast feeding and child growth
- Diarrhoea
- Coughs and colds
- Home and personal hygiene (include dental)
- Malaria
- AIDS
- Immunisation
- Regular and safe water supply

13. DEVELOPED COUNTRIES PRIORITIES
•
Personal health care (including personal hygiene and dental care)
- Mental and emotional health (including personal and human
relationships)
- Sex education
- Family life education
- Nutrition education
- Use and abuse of addictive substances (legal and illegal)
- Physical activity
- The environment
- Safety education and accident prevention (including First Aid)
- Consumer education

14. National levelSchool health
programmes

15. • School Health Program is envisaged as an
important tool for the provision of preventive,
promotive and curative health services to the
population
• The programme which is functioning well in
states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat and
West Bengal
• The states can, in the spirit of the flexibility of
RCH and NRHM, modify the options as per
their needs and the available options for
service delivery. The School Health
Programme would benefit 22 Crore students
in 12, 88,750 schools all over India.

16. Components of School Health Program:
• Screening, health care and referral:
• Screening of general health, assessment of
Anaemia/Nutritional status, visual acuity, hearing
problems, dental check up, common
• skin conditions, heart defects, physical disabilities,
learning disorders, behavior problems.
• Basic medicine kit to be provided to take care of
common ailments prevalent among young school going
children.
• Referral Cards for priority services at District / SubDistrict hospitals.

17. • Immunization:
o As per national schedule
o Fixed day activity
o Coupled with education about the issue
• Micronutrient (Vitamin A & Iron Folic Acid)
management:
o Weekly supervised distribution of Iron-Folate
tablets coupled with education about the issue
o Vitamin-A as per national schedule.

18. De-worming
As per national guidelines
Biannually supervised schedule
Prior IEC with intimation to families to bring
siblings to school on the fixed day
o Siblings of students also to be covered
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• Health Promoting Schools
o Counseling services, Promotion of mental wellbeing.
o Regular practice of Yoga, Physical education, health
education

19. School health programmes in Kerala
• Arogyakeralam programme
The School Health Programme rolled out in the State
from July ‘09 as a unique joint venture of the
Departments of Health, Education, Sports, Council
and Local Self Government.
• Junior Public Health Nurses @ one for 2,500
students will be especially recruited.
• The benefits of the School Health Programme will
be extended to approximately 9.50 lakh students,
both from Government and aided sectors, in 992
schools across the State during the first phase.

20. Aim
• Helping the nation build a bright and healthy
generation, equipping them to make healthy
choices and for planning to maintain a
healthy population in the future.

21. The Main Components the State wide
School Health Programme
• Clinical services: The JPHNs are expected to attend minor
clinical ailments and health issues that the student face while
in school. JPHNs will arrange Medical screening camps with
help of school health team.
• Preventive services: Health education is the most important
component of the school health program, and is the most
important function of JPHNs, other than clinical services.
Health education involves teaching a wide range of subjects
about health, preventable diseases, hygienic practices and
normal milestones.
• Counseling: The services of a clinical psychologist/social
worker will be made available in the future.
• Documentation: Documentation of health related activities
and filling of Health Record

22. conclusion
• Health education is a significant addition to the
curricula of schools because health is a source of
major concern.
• The existence of health problems can disrupt the
opportunities for learning in the sense that it can
disrupt classroom attendance and overall state of
mind.
• Increasing awareness among the student body can
reduce the risk of educational disruptions.
• The development of attitudes at a young age can
increase the probability that behaviors will be altered
and a more balanced lifestyle is developed.

23. REFERENCES
• http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/
ste/projects/health/planning.htm
• http://www.who.int/school_youth_health/en/
• http://www.ehow.com/about_4881852_healt
h-education-schools.html
• http://arogyakeralam.gov.in/index.php/progra
mmes/school-health
• TURNER C., PLANNING FOR HEALTH
EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS