Abstract
A health promoting school (HPS) establishes and documents school policies and programs that promote health and well-being; provides a safe, secure, clean, sustainable, conducive, and healthy physical environment for learning; builds a secure school social environment that fosters positive relationships among and between students, staff, parents, and the wider community; strengthens community links through connections and partnerships among families, the community, schools, organizations and other stakeholders; includes action competencies for healthy living in the formal and informal curricula for development of students’ knowledge and life skills; and facilitates access to health-care and health promotion services.
Schools represent a privileged setting for Health in All Policies (HiAP) implementation, recognizing its contributions to the SDG’s achievement. The international community, aware of the interest of HPS and HiAP in achieving the SDGs, initiated number of processes for its recognition and adoption by countries. This chapter highlighted examples of HPS implementation and its benefits to intersectoral action for sustainable development. There are some implementation gaps that need to be addressed to take full advantage of health promoting schools in most countries especially in low-resource settings.
“It takes a village to raise a child.” African Proverb
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Houéto, D., Good, S. (2021). Health Promoting Schools. In: Haring, R., Kickbusch, I., Ganten, D., Moeti, M. (eds) Handbook of Global Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05325-3_85-2
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