By: Robert Jenkins, Director of Education and Advanced Development. UNICEF, Victor Aggio, Director, Nutrition and Child Development-UNICEF, Stephania Gianini, Assistant Director General for Education.
The search for health and well -being of learners through a multi -faceted approach is a very changing and cost -effective way to further comprehensive and equal the education system..
What is an integrated approach to school health and nutrition? Schools are a key setting to provide health and nutritional intervention essential for the health, nutrition, and overall welfare of children and children of school age and overall welfare, and the school is a key setting to promote a capable environment.
This requires an integrated approach that includes the entire educational system and other sectors to prepare and implement school -based policies, programs and initiatives that support equality and social participation in education. And make sure the school environments are free from violence and are conducive to good health, nutrition, development and learning. This may include access to safe water and cleaning, health and nutrient -related curriculum access, and school -oriented health and nutrition services such as vaccination, oral health promotion, vision screening and treatment, malaria control, nutritional and safe health services, health and health services, health services, health services, health services, health services, health services and health services.
According to a summary report prepared by UNESCO, UNICEF, WFP, Joe, FAO, GPE, and the World Bank, school health and nutrition programs offer a lot of education results, supporting research consortium for school health and nutritional, supporting the united and united world. It has a 62 % reduction in absenteeism through malaria prevention intervention, 9 % increase in enrollment rates while introducing school foods, 21-61 % reduction in absenteeism in low -income countries, and 50 % less than school violence and tackling school violence. Almost every country in the world, 90 %, already enforces school health and nutritional programs, which shows that they are an effective, practical and affordable way to help learners. For example, more than 100 countries have vaccination programs in schools, one out of two children in primary school receives school food, and almost every country involves health and well -being in its curriculum.
Healthy and well -educated schoolchildren learn better. Ensure that girls and boys are in school and are capable of learning and ready to learn and allow countries to develop their human capital and to achieve their abilities in life. Investing in school -or -based health and nutritional intervention is auxiliary, healthy and educated population, and eventually aid long -term growth, and sustainable and comprehensive development.
Today’s need is more than ever, because children and adolescents face unprecedented challenges. Kovide 19 pandemic diseases deepened the learning crisis and hindered access to important services for health and nutrition provided at children and adolescent schools. And now, the global fuel and food prices crisis is putting millions of children into hunger and poverty around the world, which is more likely to risk their education. It provides a good opportunity to re -think the education system to recognize health and nutrition, and overall fitness as an integral part of education policies, strategies and programs.
The growing identity of the main role of education in the society and multilateral measures such as contributions to various sectors of the government, such as’Make every school a health -growing school‘And School food alliance provides a unique opportunity to solve this problems From the point of view of education, health and nutrition in government, and the system.
As schools have reopened, it is important to restore and measure the health and nutrition programs of schools to ensure the health, fitness and success of all the learners – not only to survive, but also to provide the opportunity to develop in the school environment and beyond.
To take action on school health and nutrition
In order to understand the ability to change a coordinated approach to school health and nutrition, governments, educational partners and communities will have to demand the health and well -being of learners as the basic education agenda. We have to change the parable from where schools are only seen as places to promote educational results, and the needs of learners are fully resolved through school -based successful intervention.
With the leadership of a strong country, which is similar to proper investment, comprehensive school health and nutrition programs can be widely enhanced and can reach very weak and backward learners. Understanding and maintaining a comprehensive, standard school health and nutritional programs, auxiliary national policies, modern methods for financing and integrated efforts in the fields.
School health and nutrition policies and programs should be relevant and accountable for the country’s context and prepared needs. Countries will need to review and continue the design of the policy and program from time to time to ensure that they meet the needs of children and adolescents of school -age children and respond to new evidence and emerging challenges such as climate change effects.
Transforming Education Summit provides government, education, and health stakeholders an opportunity to obey the system throughout the system to promote the health and well -being of learners. UNESCO, UNICEF, WFP, WHO and FAOs encourage partners to advance the opportunity to renew the opportunity to renew the promises effective integrated school health and nutritional programs, so that children and young people are ready to learn and develop their future.
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