At the August 1995 meeting of the General Council of the CMA, a resolution supporting
school-based health promotion (comprehensive School Health) was adopted. This article …

The conference theme, &dquo; Promoting Health through the Schools, &dquo; indicates the
potential role of schools as a site for the delivery of health promotion programs aimed at …

In 1990, the Harvard School Health Education Project initiated a national policy analysis
related to school-based health promotion. The Project was established at the Harvard …

Evaluative studies of outcomes of traditional school health education programs have shown
that they are very effective in increasing knowledge, somewhat effective in improving …

Three areas of school-based health promotion and disease prevention will be described in
this chapter, including school-based intervention research, comprehensive school health …

The 32 chapters in this book (presented in two volumes) cover a continuum of issues in
comprehensive school health education, including a review of the past and a vision of the …

National attention began to focus on health education in 1971 when President Richard M.
Nixon commissioned the President's Committee on Health Education.(1) This committee …

Activities for engaging schools in health promotion | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case
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Implementing comprehensive school health programs presents one of our nation" s key
challenges for the l990s and beyond. Whether we are talking about Goals 2000 or Healthy …

ORE THAN 300,000 deaths each year are attributable to smoking; it is the chief preventable
cause of premature death in this country. A great major-ity of people who smoke begin the …