Health Promotion Flashcards
What is a health promoting school?
A school that uses its full organisational capacity to promote the health of the school community including school children as well as staff.
Health promoting schools focus on enhancing health through various initiatives and environments.
What is health promotion?
Health promotion enables people to improve their health by controlling factors which influence health.
Understanding health promotion is crucial for personal and community health management.
How does school health promotion benefit students?
It helps school children to promote the health of the school and the society they live in by helping them to influence and control factors which affect health.
What are some ways to contribute to health promotion in schools?
Through the Health Development Society and the Student Health Society.
Participation in these societies helps develop personality and improve health.
List the components of a school’s physical environment.
- Classrooms
- Buildings
- School garden
- Playground
- Water supply
- Other physical features
What should a healthy school’s physical environment include?
- Clean air
- Clean surroundings
- Attractiveness
- Clean classrooms
- Adequate and clean toilet facilities
- Clean, safe drinking water
- Adequate facilities for sports
- Clean and healthy canteen
- A safe environment
What are characteristics of a healthy psychological and social environment?
- Safety from bullying and abuse
- Providing counseling services
- Ensuring equal treatment for all
- Opportunities for teamwork
- Learning to appreciate others
What are the themes for health promotion?
- Developing policies which promote health
- Improving knowledge and skills
- Creating a healthy environment
- Getting help from the community
- Reorganizing and making optimum use of health services
Fill in the blank: Improving the knowledge regarding health is simply not adequate to promote health; therefore, the above themes were introduced to make health promotion _______.
[successful]
What are some strategies to consume healthy food in school?
- Developing a policy of bringing only healthy food
- Determining nutritional status and identifying healthy food
- Ensuring the canteen serves only healthy food
- Vendors around the school agreeing to sell only healthy food
- Getting help from the Medical Officer of Health
List some life skills important for health promotion.
- Self-understanding and self-esteem
- Decision making
- Coping with stress
- Critical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Good interpersonal relationships
- Productive communication
- Empathy
What are examples of health-related policies in schools?
- Separate containers for collecting garbage
- A clean and orderly canteen
- Providing clean safe water
- Conducting health camps
- Not bringing polythene to school
- Bringing only healthy food
- Not consuming artificial drinks
- Establishing a health promotion committee
How can students contribute towards the health promotion of their school?
By following existing rules and policies.
What are health services?
Institutions, personnel, and programmes which help to maintain and promote health.
List some public services that help to promote health in schools.
- Agriculture officer
- Medical Officer of Health
- Public Health Inspector (PHI)
- Public Health Midwife (PHM)
- School medical services
- School dental health services
- Immunization programme
- School sanitary inspection
- Police
