The Emerging Global Vision of a “Health Promoting school”

One that is constantly strengthening its capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working.

It focuses on creating health and presenting important causes of death, disease and disability by helping school children, staff, family and community to care for themselves.
It equips school children to take informed decisions over circumstances that affect their health and create conditions that are conducive to health. (WHO - 2008)
Creating a health promoting school means applying new ways of positive thinking. It strives to incorporate health into all aspects of life at the school and in the neighborhood community even for nearing the Goals of a Nation.
A Comprehensive School Health Policy
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 school a healthy place.
Strives to provide a healthy environment, school health education, and school health services along with school/community projects and outreach, health promotion programmes for staff, nutrition and food safety programmes, opportunities for physical education and recreation, and programmes for counseling, social support and mental health promotion.
Implement policies and practices that respect an individual's well being and dignity, provide multiple opportunities for success, and acknowledge good efforts and intentions as well as personal achievements.
Strives to improve the health of school personnel, families and community members as well as pupils; and works with community leaders to help them understand how the community contributes to, or undermines, health and education.