Component of Health

Promoting School
Dr MYO MIN (Assistant Director)
School Health
Public Health Section
DOH, NPT
11June2013
 Health Promoting School
• A school constantly strengthening its
capacity as a healthy setting for living,
learning and working.
• HPS is a setting where education and
health programmes creates a health
promoting environment which in turn
promotes learning.
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1.Comprehensive School Health
Education
• Focused on skilled based health
education
• Comprehensive, Integrated, Life Skill
Education to adopt healthy choices
and healthy behavior
• Enables to protect the wellbeing of
the families and communities
 Life Skill Education
Curriculum (action-oriented
participatoy)

 Facts for Life as

Co-curriculum
Grade 6, Teacher’s Manual & Student’s books
Comprehensive School Health
Education
Comprehensive School Health
Education
 2.School Environmental
Sanitation
• Provide safe water and sanitary latrines
• Sanitary disposal of refuse
• Protect from infectious disease
• Protect from discrimination, harassment,
abuse and violence
• Reject the use of tobacco, alcohol and illicit
drugs
• Provide a safe environment for school
environment
Hygiene Promotion
School Environmental
Sanitation
 3.Nutrition Promotion and food
safety programme
• Provide safe and nutritious food and
micronutrients to reduce nutritional
deficiencies, prevent disease, and
foster growth and development
• Inspection of food handlers and
school food stalls
• 5 methods
Nutrition Promotion
Food Safety programme
 4.Disease Control Activities
• Preventive and promotive measure for
communicable diseases and non-
communicable diseases
• Communicable disease- DHF, Diarrhoea,
Avian influenza, H1N1
• Non-communicable disease -Heart
disease, Hypertension, Diabetes, Cancer
• Poisoning, Accident and Injury Prevention
Disease Control Activities
Disease Control Activities
 5.School Health Services

• Regular medical examination

• Treatment of minor diseases and
infections
• Treatment of dental and oral health
• Refer to hospital or health centres if
required
• Refer to specialist
School Health Services
 6.Community outreach
• Advocacy and support by the
community for the development of the
school as a healthy setting
• Active participation of community in
school health services
• Active participation by the school and
the students
 7.Counseling and Social
support
• Counseling training for school
teachers
• Effective school counseling and social
support for children and adolescent
with emotional problems
 8.Training and research
• Annual training for teachers and BHS on
HPS
• Refresher training on School and
Adolescent health
• Training on SSHE
• Student health surveys – GSHS, GYTS
Global School-based Student Health Survey
(2007)
•No of schools – 50 in number.
( from 9 states & divisions, and 25 townships)

• Eligible class – Grade 8, 9,10,11

• number of students selected - 2954
Myanmar
Global School-
Based Student
Health Survey
MOH
approved
on August
Compiled by
Dr Aung Tun 21, 2009
Myanmar GSHS Coordinator
2008

The Union of Myanmar

Ministry of Health
 Hygiene-related behaviours, by sex, MYANMAR GSHS, 2007

Question Total % (CI)* Sex

Male % (CI) Female % (CI)

Did not clean or brush their 4.5 5.5 (3.9 - 7.0) 3.5 (2.4 - 4.6)
teeth during the past 30 days (3.3 - 5.7)

Never or rarely washed their 3.1 4.8 (2.8 - 6.8) 1.4 (0.6 - 2.3)
hands before eating during the (2.0 - 4.2)
past 30 days

Never or rarely washed their 3.5 4.7 (3.1 - 6.3) 2.3 (1.5 - 3.2)
hands after using the toilet or (2.4 - 4.6)
latrine

Never or rarely used soap when 3.5 4.0 (2.6 - 5.3) 3.1 (1.9 - 4.3)
washing their hands (2.4 - 4.7)
 9.Physical Exercise,
Recreation and Sports
• Educate about advantages of regular
physical exercise
• Support enabling environment for daily
regular exercise
Physical exercise, Recreation
and Sports
Thank
You

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