Integrating school of community efforts to promote health: strategies, policies, and methods

Abstract

The purposeful integration of school and community efforts indeed may be the critical element in a formula to promote the health of school-aged children and youth. Obviously there are numerous strategies, policies, and methods to functionally integrate school and community activities. As concluded by the Director of the U.S. Office of Maternal and Child Health in a paper on New Policies in School Health : What is required, then, are not new policies in school health, but, a reaffirmation and implementation of policies that have been with us for many years