Toward a healthy high schools movement: Strategies for mobilizing public health for educational reform

J. Ruglis and N. Freudenberg

American Journal of Public Health, 2010, vol. 100, issue 9, 1565-1571

Abstract: Although research shows that education and health are closely intertwined, health professionals have difficulty using this evidence to improve health and educational outcomes and reduce inequities. We call for a social movement for healthy high schools in the United States that would improve school achievement and graduation rates; create school environments that promote lifelong individual, family, and community health and prevent chronic illness, violence, and problems of sexual health; and engage youths in creating health-promoting environments. Achieving these goals will require strengthening and better linking often uncoordinated efforts to improve child health and education. Only a broad social movement has the power and vision to mobilize the forces that can transform educational and health systems to better achieve health and educational equity.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.186619

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