1. Lawrence St.Leger Vancouver 2007
Evidence of the Effectiveness of School Health Promotion - implications for policy, practice and research
Lawrence St.Leger
Vancouver 2007

3. Acknowledgements Teachers, students, parents
Researchers and evaluators
Health and education officials
NGO’s

4. Important Basic Facts and Claims
Pre requisites for health
Determinants of health
Purpose of Schools

5. Prerequisites for Health
Peace
Shelter
Education
Food
Income
Stable ecosystem
Sustainable resources
Social justice
Equity

6. Determinants of Health
Biological
Behavioural
Environmental
Social

8. Purposes of School Health
To build health knowledge, skills and behaviours in the cognitive , emotional, social and behavioural domains
HPS build generic competencies in knowledge and understanding, analysing and synthesising information and creating ideas about, and solutions for, personal, local and global health issues
To enhance educational outcomes
Healthy students learn better. The core business of a school is maximising learning outcomes. Quality HPS’s make a major contribution to achieving this outcome

10. The Type of Evidence WHO Expert Committee…….
“The HPS is an investment in education, health and democracy”
(WHO 1997)

11. The Type of Evidence WHO Expert Committee……
Five categories of indicators

12. Categories of Indicators
1. Children's health status
2. Learning ability, attendance and learning achievement
3. Behaviours affecting health
4. Quality of the physical and psychosocial environments
5. School health program implementation
(WHO, 1995)

13. What is School Health? What is the HPS?
Outcome?
Approach?
Set of values?
Issue specific program?
Common set of programs and services?