School health education, including sexual health education, plays a crucial role in shaping adolescents’ protective health behaviors, experiences, and outcomes.
Schools are crucial for promoting healthy diets and nutrition. The school nutrition environment encompasses opportunities to ensure students receive nutritious foods and accurate messages about good nutrition, supported by relevant services and education on healthy practices.
This document, developed for, and in collaboration with, the Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health (JCSH), outlines a set of Canadian Standards and Indicators for HPS.
Rwanda’s National School Feeding Programme has expanded rapidly within very few years. Based on the National Comprehensive School Feeding Policy of 2019, the programme provides hot meals to all students in all public or government-supported pre-primary, primary and secondary schools since 2020.
Public policies often aim to improve welfare, economic injustice and reduce inequality, particularly in the social protection, labour, health and education sectors. While these policies frequently operate in silos, the education sphere can operate as a cross-sectoral link.
Family Life Education (FLE) in Samoa is integrated in the main carrier subjects of Health and Physical Education, Social Studies and Science at primary level.
This policy brief aims to analyse the unique challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) adolescents and how the experiences of these unique challenges are linked to the overall sexual and reproductive health challenges of adolescents in general.
The 2022-2030 National Youth Friendly Health Services Strategy follows the expiry of the 2015–2020 Strategy which was being implemented for the past five years.
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is seen as a key instrument through which to affect behaviour and improve sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes amongst adolescents. However, few studies have to date evaluated key SRH outcomes following exposure to CSE within a school setting.
“Safe to Learn” is a global initiative dedicated to ending violence against children in and through schools. Ending violence in and through schools refers to two aspects of ending violence.