Building the Capacity of Schools to Improve Health in Critical Issues in Global Health
Kolbe, L., Jones, J., Birdthistle, I., & Vince Whitman, C. (2001). Building the capacity of schools to improve health. In C. Pearson, C. Everett Koop & R. Schwarz (Eds.) Critical issues in global health (pp. 212-220). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
This book is a compendium of chapter articles from a panel of internationally renowned medical and public health experts that offer insight into the most important health issues facing our world’s population. HHD/EDC contributed in writing a chapter titled “Building the Capacity of Schools to Improve Health”. The chapter provides information about different effective programs and strategies to improve school health. It also describes the importance of school health efforts in the previous century and in preventing the leading causes of disease burden projected in coming decades.
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