Background Improvement of health literacy, health behavioural change, creating a
supportive physical and social environment to be more conducive to health should be the …

Background: The Health Promoting School (HPS) is a WHO sponsored framework, compiled
to enable education and health sectors to be more effective in school based initiatives. Aims …

Both health and education are linked to economic performance. The success of education
depends on good health, and vice versa. Modern education should help young people to …

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 …

An evaluation framework, called the Hong Kong Healthy Schools Award, has been
developed to enable comprehensive collection and analysis of data reflecting the status of …

BACKGROUND: Improving health literacy can be a strategy for the achievement of public
health goals, and the concept of the Health Promoting School can help to build on the health …

After successful pilot projects, Zhejiang Province, China, decided to systematically scale-up
health promoting schools (HPS) over the entire province of 47 million. This study describes …

Chronic diseases are now the major causes of death and disability worldwide, and non-
communicable diseases (NCD) account for the majority of the global health burden. About …

Changes in national and state policies in the past two decades have had a negative impact
on school health education. During this same time, significant gains have been made in our …

The health promoting school (HPS) approach was developed and introduced during the
1980s. Its development was inspired by the Ottawa Charter presented at the first …