Schools, health literacy and public health: possibilities and challenges
Schools, health literacy and public health: possibilities and challenges
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DOI：
10.1093/heapro/16.2.197
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发表时间：
2001-06-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
St Leger, L
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作者：
St Leger, L
健康素养是一个可以被学校广泛接受的概念。世界各地的学校结合其教育承诺，为实现公共卫生目标作出贡献。本文确定了学校教育核心业务与公共卫生目标之间的联系，并提供了营养领域的例子，说明这些联系如何在学校层面上运作。介绍了健康促进学校的结构和功能，并提出健康促进学校与实现健康素养所需的有利因素之间存在着非常密切的联系。本文描述了文献中的主要发现，这些发现为学校健康教育和促进举措的良好做法提供了证据。此外，这些因素，使学校有效，促进学生的学习被确定。在促进健康学校的成功组成部分和有效的学校之间有很大的重叠。这使学校有可能实现所有三个级别的卫生知识普及，包括关键的第3级卫生知识普及。然而，要使学校达到这一水平，必须解决三个挑战：学校的传统结构和功能、教师的实践和技能、时间和资源。提出了解决这三个领域的战略，并利用学校作为环境，减少实现卫生知识普及和公共卫生目标的障碍。
Health literacy is a concept that can be widely embraced by schools. Schools throughout the world contribute to the achievement of public health goals in conjunction with their educational commitments. In this paper, the interface between a school's core business of education and public health goals is identified, and examples provided in the area of,nutrition demonstrating how these links can operate at school level. The structure and function of the health promoting school is described and the author proposes that there is a very close connection between the health promoting school and the enabling factors necessary in achieving health literacy. Major findings in the literature that provide evidence of good practices in school health education and promotion initiatives are described. Also those factors that make schools effective and which facilitate learning for students are identified. There is a substantial overlap between the successful components of a health promoting school and effective schools. This enables schools to potentially achieve all three levels of health literacy, including level 3-critical health literacy. However, there are three challenges that must be addressed to enable schools to achieve this level: the traditional structure and function of schools, teachers practices and skills, and rime and resources. Strategies are proposed to address all three areas and to reduce the impediments to achieving the goals of health literacy and public health using the school as a setting.