Health Promoting Schools: An Update
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Health Promoting Schools: An Update Albert Lee1,2 · Amelia Lo1 · Queenie Li1 · Vera Keung1 · Amy Kwong1
© The Author(s) 2020
Abstract The concept of a Health Promoting School has been found to be effective to improve health and well-being of students as well as a help with teaching and learning in school. Effective implementation of Health Promoting School is a complex intervention involving multi-factorial and innovative activity in many domains such as curriculum, school environment and community. Many studies evaluating Health Promoting School do not include outcomes reflecting the organisational or structural change as many of those studies are quantitative in nature and the statistical assumptions are not valid reflecting the organisational structure changes. Recent global meetings of experts have reviewed the impact on student health from the perspectives of school environment, school policies on health, action competencies on healthy living and community linkage. The English Wessex Healthy School Award Scheme and the Hong Kong Healthy School Awards Scheme have developed detailed systems to analyse whether each individual school has reached the standard of a model Health Promoting School reflecting a more holistic appreciation and understanding of all the effects of school-based health promotion with positive award-related changes. However, not many schools are able to implement Health Promoting School in its entirety, so cores indicators are needed as a starting point for wider implementation. Hong Kong Healthy School Awards Scheme is still ongoing with data for analysis of indicators with significant correlation with better health and well-being. We identified the core indicators and substantiated the requirements for successful outcomes by supplementing the established award-scheme framework with a review of recent literature and documents. Framework of Health Promoting School would go beyond improvement of health literacy to enable a more efficient system for education and health on children, hence a good investment in children. Key Points for Decision Makers This paper highlights: How a healthy school award scheme would provide a comprehensive framework for development of Health Promoting Schools with core indicators as inputs for implementation. The details for implementation and the outcome measures for evaluation of Health Promoting School.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-020-00575-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Albert Lee [email protected] 1
Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 4th Floor, Lek Yuen Health Centre, Shatin, New Territory, Hong Kong
JC School of Public Health, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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1 Need for Updating on Health Promoting Schools 1.1 Health Promoting School Framework to Tackle Triple Health Burden A recent paper on school health has raised the question of wh
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