Learning healthy living--health management in schools. Health promotion in schools with particular consideration of socially disadvantaged students
Windel, I.
Gesundheitswesen 67(2): 137-140
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0941-3790 PMID: 15747203 DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-857890Document Number: 239665
"Learning to Live Healthy" is a cooperation project between the Central Association of Health Insurers and the Health Associations of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Rhineland-Palatinate. Our goal is to develop a healthy environment for all teachers and students in the "School Organization". Our focus lies -- more strongly than with earlier projects for school health promotion -- in the improvement of the health of teachers and non-teaching personnel. Not until their resources are strengthened and overwork/overload broken down, can resources be directed to health promotion for and with students, and health risks connected with social inequalities can be diminished. The project operates with the setting approach, and uses the principles of Workplace Health Management- Integration, Participation and Project Management. The project utilizes the instruments of project organization to jump-start the process of change in the School Organization, systematically, through goal-oriented action and sustainable development, thus improving the quality of education.