Health Promotion In Schools

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The purpose of this research paper is to explain how and why the promotion of health in schools is important for the students health; how promoting health in schools is based on scientific evidence and quality practices from all over the world. By targeting the evidence of how individual health issues, such as healthy eating, diseases in the long run, sleep and mental health, relate to a holistic view of health and health promotion. This research paper is strictly written to support health promotion development and innovation in education systems. This paper is written for a good cause to get the attention of schools who insist on feeding the youth with unhealthy foods to realize what they are doing is wrong. The main objective of schools …show more content…

This is still reflected today in some of the attempts to begin something new in schools on, for example, being very overweight or drug use. This can be filled with problems or ineffective as such approaches are sometimes based on ideas you think are true relating to human behaviour, which are very hard to give a good reason for and not supported by events or objects that prove something. First of all it is known that all the 'topics' interact and are not separate at the behavioural level. For example, teenage sexual activity can be linked to alcohol and drug use. Second, there is a risk that health will be seen only at the level of the individual and his or her relationship to the topic being explored, when in fact the social surrounding conditions is very often very important in figuring out behaviour. Third, there is a desire within the topic approach to assume that human behaviour is completely based on knowledge and thinking, and treats the important dimension of the feelings of love, hate, fear, etc. as a separate topic, when in fact mental and emotional aspects are an important part of all the health issues. This is not to say that a topic approach has no place in school health education or in the promotion of health in schools. It is an argument for making sure that if a topic is being explored, that possible connections are made to other topics in the classroom and in the wider life of the school. This can enable students to think about the issue in the reality of the social and related to surrounding conditions or the health of the Earth contexts of their lives. There are combining into one themes that can cut across topics at a related to ideas about how things work or why they happen

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