PROMOTION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN SCHOOL: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Abstract

Health promotion programs have a good impact on the school community. However, a variety of factors that impact their development prevent all of them from reaching the desired results. These factors include the excessive workload of the teachers, their exclusion from the centers' instruction courses, a lack of specialized instruction, their limited time for health promotion endeavors, and the flexibility of the programs. Because they have the ability to reach all members of the population in specific age groups and instill good behavior patterns at a young age, schools are ideal locations for the carrying out of health-promoting initiatives. Schools play a significant role in hosting a broad range of health-promoting events. In order to assess the amount of published evaluations and health promotion inside schools, this systematic review set out to map the various kinds of health promotion programs and activities in schools.

Using searches in ten electronic databases (CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Scopus, Social Science Citation Index, Web de Science, Google Scholar), a systematic review with research synthesis was carried out. Research on the promotion or health services in schools that were published in journals between 2013 and 2023 qualified for inclusion. After vetting the publications for eligibility, the research authors analyzed six of them.

Any action carried out to enhance and/or safeguard the health or all school users might be categorized as health promotion inside a school context. It is a more comprehensive idea than wellness instruction and covers programs and initiatives linked to curriculum, community connections, healthy school procedures, the social and physical setting of the school, and health services. The results show how varied health promotion is in schools, and they also identify important aspects of this variety. They emphasize the need for a deeper understanding of the why, how, and conditions under which health promotion may be effectively incorporated into various educational settings, including schools.

 Keywords: health; health promotion initiative; elementary and secondary education requirements;