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This page includes brief summaries and links to reports, surveys, presentations and other web-based resources that report on the health/social development of school-age children and youth, the status/capacity of school, agency and government programs and policies and the health literacy/health education of students.
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Key Web Sites and Contacts
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This page has been updated by: (please add your name here) on this date: (Please add most recent date)
Recent Reports and Published Articles:
(Please provide an excerpt and a link if possible. If the report is not yet available on the web but you have permission to publish it on the web, you can either send it to dmccall@internationalschoolhealth.org for posting as part of the ISHN collection or create an account on www.docstoc.com (a document sharing web site) and then form a link from this page). If your report/article is a few pages in length, you can create a sub-page in this wiki from this page, using the "Add a New Page" tool found in the left hand navigation menu. Just create the page, open it up using the Easy Edit tool found at the top of each page, then paste your report into the page and save it.
- RoseVaithinathan, Cheong-Lim LeeYee, Wong MunLoke and KellyLeow (2009) Singapore Health Promoting Schools: The CHERISH Award, From C Aldinger and C Vince-Whitman (Eds) Case Studies in Global School Health Promotion: From Research to Practice, Springer, New York
- CHERISH Award Program
The CHERISH (CHampioning Efforts Resulting in Improved School Health) Award was launched in August 2000 to give recognition to and encourage schools to establish comprehensive health promotion programmes for students and staff through the fostering of good physical, social and emotional health for optimal learning. The CHERISH Award provides a framework for establishing comprehensive health promotion programmes in the school. Modeled after the recommendations of the WHO's Health Promoting School initiative, it uses a whole school approachtowards health promotion.
Results from Recent Surveys
(Please provide a brief summary and a link if possible)
Copies and links of Recent Presentations
(Please provide a one-line summary and a link to the slide or video presentation. If the presentation is not yet available on the web and you have permission to post it on the web, you can either send it to dmccall@internationalschoolhealth.org for posting www.slideshare.com or create an account on platforms such as www.slideshare.com or YouTube
Key Web Sites and Contacts
(Please add links to the web sites/pages of government ministries, university centres or non governmental organizations that report on or track progress being made in school health promotion and social development in this country)
- Health Promotion Board
The Health Promotion Board (HPB) of Singapore is a statutory board of the Singapore government and reports to the Ministry of Health. It was established in 2001 to act as the main driver for national health promotion and disease prevention programmes, "with a vision to build a nation of fit and healthy Singaporeans. The HPB runs a number of school health programs and initiatives.
- The School Health Promotion Grant
The grant can be used to partially fund health promotion programmes targeted at students and/or staff in schools. HPB will reimburse the school 50% of the total amount spent by the school for health promotion activities, up to a maximum of $5,000. Schools must co-fund the project by contributing an equal or higher amount.
Recent Policy, Planning, Training, Assessment or Educational Resources
(Please add the title and a link to recent policy, planning, better practice, assessment and educational resource documents published by your country/state/province or organization
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