WHO Information Series on School Health: Local Action: Creating Health Promoting Schools

By Daphne Northrop and Cynthia Lang

This document is a practical "how-to" guide for work at the local level to establish school health programs. It offers organizing ideas and activities to identify health issues in the school and community and take steps such as establishing a planning team, gathering information, and developing an action plan to improve health and learning. This document includes many case studies, tools, handouts and masters for transparencies.

Contact Info: Carmen Aldinger (1-800-225-4276 x2362)

Published by: World Health Organization Order Info

Download a copy of WHO Information Series on School Health: Local Action: Creating Health Promoting Schools (PDF, 491 KB): http://www.hhd.org/publications/global/sch_local_action_en.pdf

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