Health Promotion International Advance Access originally published online on November 9, 2004
Health Promotion International 2004 19(4):405-408; doi:10.1093/heapro/dah401
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HEALTH PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL Vol. 19. No. 4 © Oxford University Press 2004; All rights reserved.
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What's the place of schools in promoting health? Are we too optimistic?
E-mail: lawrence.stleger@deakin.edu.au
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Schools are viewed by the health sector and the community as playing a key role in solving society's health problems. This is true in both developed and developing countries. The emerging obesity/overweight problems of the developed world, and poor sanitation and basic hygiene in many developing countries are just two of the many topics, which may find their way into a school's curriculum.
But can schools actually make a difference to the health status of young people? And what part, if any, do they play in reducing dental caries, poor nutritional behaviours, unwanted pregnancies, gastrointestinal diseases, tobacco use, etc., etc.? Perhaps we believe schools are better placed to address health issues than the reality suggests. We might even have an inappropriate model on which we have based most school health interventions.
Compulsory schooling in many countries began in the latter half of the 19th century. This was a time when
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