This guidance provides practical strategies to implement and strengthen school health services (SHS) as part of a whole-school approach. It serves as the implementation guidance for the WHO Guideline on School Health Services, translating evidence-based recommendations into actionable steps.
Schools play an important role in promoting healthy diets and good nutrition and can create an enabling environment for children. However, the school food environment is often not conducive to a healthy diet.
Mental health conditions are prevalent and often develop early in life. Yet very few of the world’s children and young people receive the mental health services they need. There is no single best model for organizing mental health services that applies to all contexts.
This WHO guideline provides Member States with evidence-based recommendations and implementation considerations on policies to improve school food environments.
This publication has been developed to support the implementation of the WHO Guidelines on mental health promotive and preventive interventions for adolescents, released in 2020. The Toolkit includes a core set of evidence-informed strategies to promote and protect adolescent mental health.
This document describes health workers’ competencies and behaviours necessary to advance universal health coverage for the world’s adolescents.
This technical report describes the prevalence, risk factors for, and consequences of child corporal punishment, which it defines as “any punishment in which physical force is used and intended to cause some degree of pain or discomfort, however light”.
This guidance supports countries in strengthening and using data on adolescent health and well-being for effective decision-making and action.
The Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative (NFSI), a school-based health and nutrition program is being adopted as the platform on which to implement a set of school-based health and nutrition activities aimed at improving the school environment to make it more nutrition sensitive.
The objectives of this guideline are the same as those of the 2011 edition, namely to provide evidence-based normative guidance on interventions to improve adolescent morbidity and mortality by reducing the chances of early pregnancy and its resulting poor health outcomes.