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A healthy school is one that constantly strengthens its capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working.

Reference: "What Is A Health Promoting School," __School and Youth__//.// The World Health Organization, []
 * A healthy school:**
 * Fosters health and learning with all the measures as its disposal.
 * Engages health and education officials, teachers, teachers' unions, students, parents, health providers and community leaders in efforts to make the school a healthy place.
 * Strives to provide a healthy environment, school health education, and school health services along with school/community projects and outreach, health promotion programs for staff, nutrition and food safety programs, opportunities for physical education and recreation, and programs for counselling, social support and mental health promotion.
 * Implements policies and practices that respect an individual's well being and dignity, provide multiple opportunities for success, and acknowledge good efforts and intentions as well as personal achievements.
 * Strives to improve the health of school personnel, families and community members as well as pupils; and works with community leaders to help them understand how the community contributes to, or undermines, health and education.

"A school setting provides important opportunities for learning and practicing healthy habits that can be carried into adulthood." Dr. Perry Kendall, An Ounce of Prevention ||



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