Rethinking School Health Key Component of Education for All Bundy, D. (2011)
The provision of quality schools, textbooks, and teachers can result in effective education only if a child is in school and ready and able to learn. The child is at the center of efforts to achieve Education for All (EFA) by 2015 and to address the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of universal basic education and gender equality in educational access. A child who is hungry or sick will not be able to complete a basic education of good quality. In order to achieve EFA, it is essential that the poorest children, who suffer most from ill health and hunger, are able to attend school and learn while there.
School health and nutrition programs can contribute to EFA and have become a part of national development policy worldwide. They have a long history in rich countries, where they were among the first social protection programs to emerge at the beginning of the 20th century. In middle- and low-income countries, school health programs were viewed primarily as having health sector-specific objectives until the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000. Since then, there has been increasing recognition of the role of good school health and nutrition programs in achieving the goal of Education for All.
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Bundy, D. (2011). Rethinking School Health Key Component of Education for All World Bank
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