Health and academic achievement
Schools, health agencies, parents, and communities share a common goal of supporting the link between healthy eating, physical activity, and improved academic achievement of children and adolescents.
Schools, health agencies, parents, and communities share a common goal of supporting the link between healthy eating, physical activity, and improved academic achievement of children and adolescents.
The Foundations for a Healthy School resource is designed to help contribute to a learning environment that promotes and supports child and student well-being – one of the four core goals in Ontario’s renewed vision for education.
Violence against women and girls is an unacceptable violation of basic human rights. It also is so widespread that ending it must be a global public health priority. An estimated one in three women is beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused by an intimate partner during her lifetime.
Educación Integral de la Sexualidad: Conceptos, Enfoques y Competencias es un documento estratégico que subraya la importancia de la educación sobre sexualidad como parte integral de la educación básica o “educación fundamental”, bajo el entendido de que va más allá de la adquisición de conocimie
This paper engages in the debate on the effects of children’s health on their education in later life stages in low- and middle-income countries.
This publication is part of an ongoing programme of work initiated by UNESCO in 2008 to provide technical guidance and implementation support for sexuality education programmes, as a platform for HIV prevention, treatment and care.
This issue of Quality/Calidad/Qualité highlights the experience of Scenarios USA, an innovative nonprofit program that has integrated a gender and rights perspective—and a
A “Orientação técnica internacional sobre educação em sexualidade: uma abordagem baseada em evidências para escolas, professores e educadores em saúde” foi publicada pela UNESCO em dois volumes.
The HIV/Aids epidemic is raging in the countries of theSouth—above all in sub-Saharan Africa. Around half the newly infected are aged between 15 and 24. The only solution is to step up preventive action of all kinds. A number of new approaches are proving their worth.
This publication is part of the Teenage Health Teaching Modules, a comprehensive health education curriculum for middle and high school students.