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Dec 11, 2023 · Nutrition and Healthy Eating Programs. Nutrition plays a foundational role in the physical and cognitive development of students. Schools have a unique opportunity to influence positive dietary habits. Introducing balanced meal programs and healthy snack options can significantly impact students’ concentration, energy levels, and overall health.
Jul 18, 2024 · Schools can use the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) framework to promote positive health behaviors and reduce negative health behaviors. Schools working with community organizations and other public or private partnerships can also reduce inequalities in educational achievement and health outcomes. School programs that account ...
Jan 25, 2024 · A health promoting school is one that constantly strengthens its capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working. 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 ...
Jun 22, 2021 · UNESCO and the World Health Organization today launched the Global Standards for Health-promoting Schools, a resource package for schools to improve the health and well-being of 1.9 billion school-aged children and adolescents. The closure of many schools around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe disruptions to education. An estimated 365 million primary school students ...
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Having supports in place across CSH pillars during policy implementation has been shown to be effective at fostering positive student health behaviours.Footnote 2 Footnote 29 Our study showed variable levels of support for CSH pillars during mandated School Food and Beverage Policy (P/PM 150) implementation across schools in two time periods. For e...
Policy is a critical component of CSH initiatives as it provides the top-down support and continued reinforcement needed to sustain individuals’ behaviour change.Footnote 7 Footnote 8 When mandated by an authoritative body, health policies can also help school communities set standards and priorities for other CSH initiatives.Footnote 43 Footnote 4...
This manuscript includes data from the Healthy School Planner (HSP). This tool was developed by the Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health in partnership with the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, University of Waterloo. The HSP research was supported by Canadian Cancer Society grant #2011-701019. Authors were supported by the Ca...
TO contributed to all aspects of this research, including research design, tool development, data collection, analysis, manuscript writing and approval of the final version. RC and SM contributed to research design, tool development, overseeing data collection and analysis, as well as approval of the final manuscript.
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Jun 24, 2020 · Healthy eating is important for the healthy development of children and youth (Health Canada, 2019) and to reduce the risk of obesity later in life (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2012). Unhealthy eating behaviours that begin during adolescence may continue into adulthood, creating negative conditions for a wide variety of eating-related concerns (Vereecken, 2005).
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The Canadian Healthy School Standards define Healthy Schools and provide a framework for promoting health and wellbeing within school communities. They outline a set of interrelated actions that support successful implementation, presenting stories from across the country as practical examples. Download the Standards.
