Rethinking School Health: a Key Component of Education for All

Marc Notes: SKU 17907.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Foreword -- About the Book -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- A Strong Education Rationale for Ensuring Good Health and Avoiding Hunger at School Age -- Education Sector Benefits from a Life-Cycle Approach to Child Development -- Health and Nutrition Interventions that Promote Gender Equity and Equality and Contribute to MDG3 -- Schools that Effectively Deliver School Health and Nutrition Interventions -- The Substantial Experience of School Health and Nutrition Programs in Practice -- Important Technical Challenges Remain -- The Importance of Partnerships to the Development of School Health and Nutrition Programs -- Evolving Roles for Development Partners -- Benefits of Simplification and Consolidation of Program within Education Sector Plans -- Enough Known to Act Now -- Notes -- Chapter 1. Context and Rationale -- How This Book Is Organized -- 100 Years of School Health and School Feeding Programs in Rich Countries -- Movement of School Health and Nutrition Programs to a Pro-Poor and Education-Outcomes Focus -- Greater Harmonization of School Health and Nutrition Programs around a Common Framework -- Growth in School Health Programs in Low-Income Countries since Dakar 2000 -- Emergence of HIV as a Programmatic Issue for the Education Sector -- Growing Recognition of the Importance of School Feeding for Education -- Rising Prevalence of Noncommunicable Diseases in School-Age Children in Low-Income Countries -- Ensuring Support for the Most Marginalized Out-of-School Children -- School Health and Nutrition Programs Today -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2. Evidence of the Importance of Health and Nutrition for Education for All -- Impact on Education of Health and Nutrition Interventions at Different Stages in the Life Cycle of the Child -- Evidence for Strategic Objective 1: Ensuring that Children Are Ready to Learn and Enroll on Time -- Evidence for Strategic Objective 2: Keeping Children in School by Enhancing Attendance and Reducing Dropout Rates -- Evidence for Strategic Objective 3: Improving Learning at School by Enhancing Cognition and Educational Achievement -- Estimating the Scale of Impact of Health and Nutrition on Educational Outcomes -- Estimating the Scale of Benefit of Health and Nutrition Interventions -- Conclusions: Evidence of the Importance of Health and Nutrition for Education for All -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3. Education Sector Responses to the Health and Nutrition of Schoolchildren -- Interventions before School Age -- Maternal and Child Health -- Early Child Development Programs -- Interventions at School Age -- Deworming -- School Feeding -- Micronutrients -- Malaria Control -- HIV Prevention and Care -- Hygiene, Water, and Sanitation -- Promoting Oral Health -- Childhood Disability, Education, and School Health -- Vision: Correcting Refractive Error -- Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases -- Conclusions: Education Sector Responses to the Health and Nutrition of Schoolchildren -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. School Health and Nutrition Programs in Practice -- Issues in Designing School Health and Nutrition Programs -- Expanding Coverage and Targeting the Poor -- Defining Sectoral Roles -- Delivery Costs and the Use of the School as a Platform -- Prioritizing Interventions on the Basis of Cost and Need -- Examples of Programs in Practice -- Expanding and Refining Existing Programs -- The Philippines' Fit for School Program -- The Sri Lanka School Health Promotion Program -- School health and school feeding in Guyana -- Including the Components of School Health and Nutrition Programs in a Sectorwide Education Approach -- The Kenya education SWAp approach -- Strengthening school health in Indonesia -- Conclusion: School Health and Nutrition Programs in Practice -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5. Partnerships to Develop Consensus and Share Knowledge -- Design and Implementation Issues for School Health and Nutrition Programs -- Design and Implementation Issues for HIV/AIDS and Education Programs -- Intergovernmental Regional Networks that Share Knowledge among Countries -- Support for National Programs -- Conclusions: Partnerships Develop Consensus and Share Knowledge -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6. School Health and Nutrition Programs as a Component of Education for All -- The Education Sector Case for School Health and Nutrition Programs -- A Life-Cycle Approach to Child Development and Education -- Health and Nutrition Interventions Can Promote Gender Equity and Equality and Contribute to MDG3 -- The Unfinished Research Agenda -- An Evolving Role for Development Partners -- A Time for Consolidation -- Safe and Simple Interventions that Reach the Poor -- Enough Known to Act Now -- Appendix A. Selected Bibliography of Source Materials and Toolkits -- Appendix B. Accelerating Deworming by the Education Sector: Checklist of Good Practice -- Appendix C. Accelerating the HIV/AIDS Response of the Education Sector in Africa: Checklist of Good Practice -- Appendix D. School Health and Nutrition Programs by Country in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Greater Mekong Subregion, and the Caribbean -- Index -- Boxes -- 3.1. Home-Grown School Feeding -- 3.2. Effective Sexuality Education -- 3.3. Promoting Hand Washing with Soap in Schools: The Institutionalizing of Hygiene in the Education Sector in Peru. Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 160 (EAN 9780821379073, Paperback)