A look to school health

Now, much attention has been paid towards school health, as schools are not set for studying only, but also for other activities that can be performed and applied.

 Schools are places where a certain category of people learn, work, care for and respect each others. They are locations where students and school staff spend great deal of time. It is there where education and health programmers can have their greatest impact, because they can influence students at an important stage of their lives; childhood and adolescence. That’s why school health becomes an important aspect that accompanies education as well as learning.

As children are the basis of their growing society as they will be the decision makers of the near coming time, so, as much effort is exerted on them to acquire healthy life style practices as they are young, new types of healthy skills will be adopted in the society, that children can practice these healthy skills spontaneously when they are adults.

In 1976, WHO defined health as: “health is a complete physical,   mental, social well-being, not merely absence of disease or infirmity.” According we look after the students health holistically to achieve our super goal of having health integration (optimal health).

Zahra Abu-Saffaqqa

B.S Nursing

Master Ecology