Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chang, Li-Chun
• Huang, Song-Yuan
• Wu, Fei-Lin

Titel

From health promoting school perspectives to discuss the building of school-community partnership

Ist Teil von

• Hu li za zhi, 2005-06, Vol.52 (3), p.76

Ort / Verlag

China (Republic : 1949- )

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the wake of the WHO's health promotion campaign health promotion schools have gained currency in Europe and the United States. The Department of Education in Taiwan has proposed a "school health promotion program" and the Department of Health a "program to build healthy schools" The goal of these programs was to create a holistic environment for school health and put the concepts of "school-family-community partnership" into practice. Although difficulties, such as school-centered perspectives, ambiguous definitions of "community" and shortage of funding, human resources and long-term planning impeded the program, this article, based on literature and practical experience, presents the "school-community model" and the strategies that it applied to organize the school-community health promotion committee to plan long-term programs and to assess the needs and resources of schools and communities on a collaborative basis. It contends, furthermore, that integrating community services into curriculums in order