ERIC Number: ED557581
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2005-May
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Healthy Schools Promotion: An Experience in Thailand
Erawan, Prawit
Online Submission, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences v186 p513-521 May 2005
The promotion of health education in schools has been operated continuously in Thailand with expecting to enhance a healthy society based on the definition of health under the new trend "A comprehensive and integrated health and social dimensions of body, mind and soul into a lifestyle linked and interrelated the human relationship with a physical and social environment". This research aims to remove the lessons on building health and well-being to children and youths in schools from nine development projects, and then to determine a platform of healthy schools in order to provide a framework to supporting the improvement of healthy children and youths in the context of schools in Thailand and to make it going in the same direction.
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Public Health, Holistic Approach, Well Being, Child Health, Foreign Countries, Comprehensive School Health Education, Networks, School Community Relationship, Focus Groups, Program Development, Cooperative Planning, Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Family Environment, Environmental Influences, Safety, Elementary Secondary Education, Skill Development, Social Justice, Student Rights, Academic Ability
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Thailand
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