School Health Education Resources for Teachers
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The linkage between nutrition, health, and learning is now well established. We have evidence from research studies in many countries that children do not learn effectively if they come to school hungry, are malnourished, or suffer from intestinal parasites and other debilitating health conditions. Increasingly teachers are viewed as front line workers in the effort to diagnose and address the nutrition and health problems of primary school students in developing countries.
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The student health section of the IEQ Teacher Resource Portal provides program planners and teacher development specialists with access to information that can be used to strengthen the ability of teachers to address student nutrition and health needs. This information includes case studies of effective school nutrition and health programs, guidelines for developing school-based disease prevention programs, and classroom based diagnostic, treatment, and referral tools and approaches.
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Title: The School Health Web Site |
| URL: http://www.ceid.ox.ac.uk/schoolhealth/ |
| Language: English, some documents available in multiple languages. |
| Managing Organization: World Bank in collaboration with The Partnership for Child Development |
Resources for teachers: Documents available for download as PDF or Word files:
- School Health & Nutrition: A Situation Analysis - A Participatory Approach to Building Programmes that Promote Health, Nutrition and Learning in Schools. 1999. Available in English, French. Spanish, Portuguese, Kiswahili, and Hindi.
- School Based Health and Nutrition Programmes: Findings from a survey of donor and agency support. Partnership for Child Development, 2000.
- School Feeding Programmes: Improving effectiveness and increasing the benefit to education. A guide for programme managers. The Partnership for Child Development, Joy Del Rosso, consultant, 1999.
- What's New in Health & Nutrition of the School-Age Child?
- Focusing Resources on Effective School Health: A FRESH start to improving the quality and equity of education. Available in French and English.
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WHO Information Series on School Health, links to the WHO web site and the following documents:
- Preventing HIV/AIDS/STDs and Related discrimination: An Important Responsibility of Health-Promoting Schools.
- Tobacco Use Prevention: An Important Entry Point for the Development of a Health-Promoting School.
- Violence Prevention: An Important Element of a Health-Promoting School.
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Additional site resources include:
- A bibliography of recent resources in school health and nutrition, from which selected publications can be downloaded.
- Lists school health programs by country, describes interventions by USAID, World Food Program, the World Bank, DANIDA, Catholic Relief Services, and others.
- An overview of school health and nutrition issues.
- Case histories for Guinea and Andhra Pradesh.
- Features a school health search.
- Resource page of organizations that are sources of books and other materials on school health includes URL and contact information.
- A School Health list-serve discussion group
- EpiDynamics is a suite of programs, which use mathematical models to describe the epidemiology of human helminth infections. These models can be used to evaluate the impact of different treatment programmes on the patterns of infection and disease in human communities. Three different programs are available, EpiSchisto (for schistosomiasis), EpiFil (for lymphatic filariasis) and EpiWorm (for Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworms). All programs are available in English and French versions.
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| Links: Extensive links to agencies and organizations that support school health. |
| Comments: Site is maintained by the Partnership for Child Development. |
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| Title: Education for the Prevention of Drug Abuse and AIDS |
| URL: http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/pead/AccGB.html |
| Language: English, Spanish, French. Some materials available in multiple languages. |
| Managing Organization: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
UNESCO |
Resources for teachers:
Educational materials, and position papers available for downloading as PDF files.
- School Health Education to Prevent AIDS and STD: A Resource Package for Curriculum Planners. (1994). WHO & UNESCO, includes:
- Volume I: Handbook for Curriculum Planners. This outlines the main steps in curriculum planning, and includes a series of appendices, mostly evaluation instruments
- Volume II: Teachers'Guide. Provides specific instruction on how to teach each activity, and background information for teaching a programme on HIV/AIDS/STD
- Volume III: Students'Activities. Includes fifty-three student activities that meet a wide range of objectives for teaching an HIV/AIDS/STD programme.
- HIV/AIDS/STDS: Education for Prevention. (1999). UNESCO, WHO & Education International (EI).
- The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education: a review of literature and experience. (1994). UNESCO. Shaeffer, S. Online.
- Integrating HIV/STD prevention in the school setting: a position paper (1997). UNAIDS. Learning and teaching about AIDS at school. (1997). UNAIDS.
- WHO Information Series on Health Preventing HIV/AIDS/STI and related discrimination: An Important Responsability of Health-Promoting Schools. UNAIDS/WHO/UNESCO.
- And other materials.
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| UNESCO's main approach in the field of Education for the Prevention of AIDS is to strengthen the capacities of Ministries of Education to implement or develop effective education programmes on HIV/AIDS prevention within the school system. To achieve this goal a series of regional seminars intended for decision-makers from the education sector were organized. Download (6) summaries of the seminars, and overviews of how some countries are responding. |
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| Title: Global School Health Initiative |
| URL: http://www.who.int/hpr/ |
| Language: English, network country link sites are in national languages. |
| Managing Organization: World Health Organization, Department of Health Promotion, Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Surveillance (HPS). |
Resources for teachers: This site describes the WHO program on strategies for school health promotion; it is a jumping off point via links to regional school health networks and individual country sites, many of which provide country and region specific resources.
Publications, available as PDF files, from the WHO information series on school health:
- Violence Prevention: An Important Element of a Health-Promoting School
- Healthy Nutrition: An Essential Element of a Health-Promoting School
- Tobacco Use Prevention: An Important Entry Point for the Development of a Health-Promoting School
- Preventing HIV/AIDS/STDs and Related Discrimination: An Important Responsibility of Health-Promoting Schools
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Forthcoming on-line publications:
- Local Action: Creating Health-Promoting Schools
- Active Living: An Essential Element of a Health-Promoting School
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Non-WHO publications available as PDF files include:
- Effective School Health Promotion - Towards Health Promoting Schools
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A link to the Center for Disease Control Site provides in PDF and Postscript format:
- School Health Programs at-a-glance-Reports (5)
- School Health Program Guidelines (4)
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| Links: To WHO regional network members, collaborating centers and partner organizations. |
| The Program: WHO's Global School Health Initiative, seeks to mobilize and strengthen health promotion and education activities at the local, national, regional and global levels. The Initiative is designed to improve the health of students, school personnel, families and other members of the community through schools. |
| The goal of WHO's Global School Health Initiative is to increase the number of schools that can truly be called "Health-Promoting Schools. A Health-Promoting School can be characterized as a school constantly strengthening its capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working. |
| Comments: Features of this site that are still being developed will address research, case studies, and statistics. |
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| Title: DASH, National Center for Adolescent and School Health |
| URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/ataglanc.htm |
| Language: English, some CDC information available in Spanish. |
| Managing Organization: Center for Disease Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Adolescent and School Health. |
Resources for teachers:
This US-focused site addresses national school health strategies and adolescent and school health.
Extensive resources are available, materials address:
- National school health strategies
- Research and Evaluation-- Research and evaluation activities in Adolescent and School Health encompass four primary areas: Surveillance, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Research, and Research Synthesis and Application. The focus of each of these areas is on applied research to determine "what works" for specific populations of youth and to help translate current scientific findings into improved practice. Programs are described.
- Risk Behaviors and Health Topics
- Guidelines and Tools
- Information about Project Partners
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School Health Program Guidelines, available online, address:
- Guidelines to Promote Lifelong Physical Activity
- Guidelines to Promote Lifelong Healthy Eating
- Guidelines to Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction
- Guidelines for Effective School Health Education To Prevent the Spread of AIDS
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Other publications and products available include:
- The School Health Program At-A-Glance Reports
- School Health Finance Project, which contains information on federal, foundation, and state-specific funding sources for school health programs.
- School Health Index for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating: A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide
- An extensive bibliography
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| The Program: The mission of CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) is to: identify highest priority risks among youth; monitor incidence and prevalence of risks; implement national programs to prevent risks; and evaluate and improve programs. To carry out this mission within the U.S., CDC provides support to 58 state and territorial education agencies and 18 local education agencies; 34 national non-governmental organizations; and three demonstration centers to help every state provide HIV education within programs of coordinated school health. |
| Comments: US focused. The CDC site references involvement in international school health programs, but this does not seem to be documented on the website. |
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| Title: Health Promoting Schools in the Americas |
| URL: http://165.158.1.110/english/hpp/hs_home.htm |
| Language: English and Spanish |
| Managing Organization: Pan American Health Organization |
| Resources for teachers:
A description of the health promoting schools initiative, including news, calendar of events, description of partners. Access to network country member pages in the Andean region, Caribbean, Central America, North and South America. |
Many publications are listed online that can be obtained from PAHO, some for a fee, others no fee is indicated. These materials address assessment tools and evaluation, audiovisuals, educational materials (hygiene, life skills, tobacco and addictions), models and frameworks, publications, and teacher training materials. Only publications available on-line are listed here, available for download in both PDF and Word format:
- The Ten Who Go to School: School Health and Nutrition Programming in Latin America and the Caribbean World Bank/PAHO, LCSHD Paper Series No. 37S, 1999, pp.49. Available in Word format. This document is intended to assist those engaged in designing school health components in education, health or human development projects, or seeking to improve the effectiveness of existing projects.
- Latin American network newsletter, EXPERIENCIAS, available in Spanish can be requested online.
- Rapid Assessment Process and Tools (RAP and RAT) Translation of "Modelo de Escuelas Promotoras de Salud" Serie SILOS No. 36, PAHO, 1996, pp. 11.
- Situation Analysis - International School Health Initiative Partnership for Child Development, pp. 7.
- Promoting Health Through Schools, World Health Organization Global School Health Initiative, 1996.
- The Path of Imagination: Ways of community participation in health by Sergio Meresman and Karina Cimmino. Unpublished, 1998, 3 pp.
- WHO Global School Health Initiative, Health Promoting Schools: A healthy setting for living, learning and working. WHO/HPR/HEP/98.4
- Health Generating Schools, getting along together: A possible approach to the problem of violence in school by Karina Cimmino, Andrea Garibaldi, Marisa Najchauz, Claudia Teodori. Unpublished, 1998, 7 pp.
- Survey on Health Risk Behaviors in School Children, 14 pp. Center for Disease Control.
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| Also, teachers from Argentina share their experiences online. Plus, the site offers features for students, teenagers and parents. |
| Links: The AskEric Health Education lesson plan site offers lesson plans on the subjects of Body systems and senses, Consumer health, Environmental health, Family life Mental/emotional health, Nutrition Safety, and Sexuality Substance abuse. The site offers links to collaborating centers, for students, tool kits, schools, and teaching aids. |
| The Program: The purpose of the Initiative is to develop and strengthen the capacity of the countries to implement, maintain and expand their health promoting schools.
Mission The Health Promoting Schools Initiative is a global strategy to strengthen health promotion and health education in all aspects of education, where children, teachers and other members of the school community learn, work and play. Its mission is to cooperate technically with the Member Countries and stimulate cooperation among them, building consensus with the health and education sectors and establishing partnerships with other sectors in order to maintain healthy and supportive physical and psychosocial environments and to develop life skills for healthy lifestyles, with students, teachers and parents. |
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| Title: Comprehensive School Health |
| URL: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/children/ |
| Language: French, English |
| Managing Organization: Health Canada |
Resources for teachers: This site is under construction. Some resources are in place, while others are forthcoming. The site is broken into the following sections:
- What is Comprehensive School Health?
- School Health Lesson Prototypes (tobacco, nutrition, fitness, alcohol and drugs, injuries),
- Workplace Health systems, Student Model,
- Health Behaviors in School Aged children Survey,
- Health Promoting School Policies,
- Related Services,
- Health Canada Contacts.
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| Comments: Perhaps a good jumping off point for those seeking French language materials. |
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| Title: School Sanitation and Hygiene Education, SSHE |
| URL: http://www.irc.nl/sshe/index.html |
| Language: English, some materials also available in French and Spanish. |
| Managing Organization: A collaborative effort of UNICEF and the International Reference Center, IRC. |
Resources for teachers:
This site is divided into the following sections, with materials available therein:
- Rationale Paper - Background and Rationale for School Sanitation and Hygiene Education
- FRESH Paper - Focusing Resources on Effective School Health, A Fresh Start to Improving the Quality and Equity of Education.
- SSHE Project - describes pilot activities in six countries, and a project in India. Papers available:
- Global experiences and lessons learned
- Global Workshop Report
- Report of the Life Skills-Based Hygiene Education Workshop
- Towards Better Programming, A Manual on School Sanitation and Hygiene (PDF file.) Available in English, French, and Spanish.
- School Sanitation and Hygiene Education: A Concept Paper.
- SSHE Notes and News - a newsletter which is distributed electronically, back issues available online (English, French and Spanish.)
- Other resources include, websites, mailing lists, on-line databases, and UNICEF publications available online. UNICEF publications include:
- A Manual on School Sanitation and Hygiene (English, French and Spanish.)
- Environmental sanitation and hygiene - a right for every child, workshop report (with abstract)
- Sanitation Handbook
- Hygiene Promotion Manual
- Sanitation for All: Promoting dignity and human rights, advocacy brochure
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Links: To UNICEF country offices in Nepal, Viet Nam, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Nicaragua and Colombia.
The Importance of School Sanitation Programs links to full text reports:
- Bringing Together Health and Education for Schools - USAID, 1998
Manual on School Sanitation and Hygiene. IRC/UNICEF, 1998.
- Nigeria: Water and Environmental Sanitation in Schools M. Kamfut. UNICEF, 1998.
- School Sanitation in Primary Schools in Vietnam - UNICEF WATERfront, 1996.
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| The Program: The mission is described as "Looking for sustainable approaches to improve the health of school-aged children through better hygiene behaviour and a healthy school environment." |
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Additional Web Links Related to Resources on Student Health Education |
| Title: WWW Virtual Library on Public Health |
| URL: http://www.ldb.org/vl/top/top-hsch.htm |
| Language: English |
Comments: A list of links on Health Promoting Schools that includes international, national, and state sites as well as articles and reports available online, such as:
- School based health promotion across Australia -
- Regional Strategies for the Development of Health-Promoting Schools , and
- Greening Your School Ground. A Working Manual
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| Title: Links from the Australian Health Promoting Schools Association |
| URL: http://www.hlth.qut.edu.au/ph/ahpsa/links.htm |
| Language: English |
Comments: About half of the resources are Australia specific, the others include the major global program such as World Health Organization, PAHO and CDC. Also included are a couple of Web search sites that specialize in school health, notably the Queensland School of Technology, School of Public Health Public Health Resources.
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| Title: Kentucky Department of Education |
| URL: http://www.kde.state.ky.us/osis/resources/tp/cv/cdc_materials.asp |
| Language: English |
Comments: Links to CDC locales that provide valuable resources, much of which is either youth or classroom focused. Addresses HIV, tobacco, nutrition, cardiovascular health and more.
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| Title: UNESCO's Webcast |
| URL: http://www.unescobkk.org/infores/pips/aids1.htm |
| Language: English |
| Comments: Provides links to other websites on HIV/AIDS and Prevention Education also find a host of other information resources, information data bases and virtual reference desk. |
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