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Rethinking School Health: A Key Component Of Education For All (Directions In Development Human Development),New
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For the goals of Education for All (EFA) to be achieved, children must be healthy enough not only to attend school but also to learn while there. Because school health and nutrition programs specifically benefit poor, sick, and hungry children, they can make a key contribution to achieving EFA's goals. However, children can benefit only if the programs reach them. Rethinking School Health: A Key Component of Education for All describes how schools have been used as a platform for delivering familiar, safe, and simple health and nutrition interventions to hardtoreach children in lowincome countries. The book's foreword was written jointly by Elizabeth King of the World Bank, Susan Durston of the United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF), and Qian Tang of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), indicating the interagency support for this approach. The book will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of education, health and nutrition, and early childhood development.This book shows that there is now convincing evidence that ill health and hunger are important constraints on the education of children, and that school health and school feeding programs can help reverse these effects. The reports on actual programs make clear that the health sector has a crucial role to play in working with the education sector to ensure not only the good health but also the cognitive growth of schoolage children. Dean T. Jamison, Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle Lead editor, Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, Oxford University Press, 2006.The benefits of taking an integrated approach to school health are clearly demonstrated in the research described in this book. Areas such as nutrition and disease prevention are two organic linkages between education and health, but much remains to be done in bringing these linkages to the attention of decision makers and making health indicators and interventions a routine part of education planning. Health must come to be understood as an important component in any strategy to provide better quality education and to reach the many children who still remain outside classroom walls. Robert Prouty, Head, Education for All Fast Track Initiative Secretariat, Washington DC.
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