Effective health promoting school for better health of children and adolescents: indicators for success.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improvement of health literacy, health behavioural change, creating a supportive physical and social environment to be more conducive to health should be the focus of child and adolescent public health. The concept of Health Promoting School initiated by World Health Organization aims to move beyond individual behavioural change and to consider organisational structure change such as improvement of the school's physical and social environment. The aim of this study is identification of the key indicators for successful implementation of Health Promoting School by analysing the findings of the school health profile based on the structured framework of Hong Kong Healthy School Award Scheme and the health status of students investigated by the Hong Kong Student Health Surve

SUBMITTER: Lee A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6691553 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature