School safety assessment in Bengaluru and Kolar districts, India

Sukumar, Gautham Melur; Gururaj, Gopalkrishna; Nadig, Kavya; Roy, A.; Nair, Lakshmi Balachandran

doi:10.1080/17457300.2020.1778038

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“…This calls for schools to have necessary interventions to increase awareness and understanding of threat from different quarters, as a safe and hygienic environment in school has an effective role in a student's health. 7 In India, schools, to begin with, were education drivers, with little emphasis on safety standards. Much later, with the coming up of School Health and its reinforcement in 1995, nutritional upliftment was added to the agendas of schools.…”

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Schools as stakeholders in health promotion: a review before and in the midst of the pandemic COVID-19 with reference to India and Odisha state

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Singh³

2022

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Schools are educational hubs, which in developed countries have been very aptly used for the health promotion of simple endemic diseases and advocating levels of prevention. The infrastructure and in-depth curriculum are often instrumental in targeting good knowledge of health and disease, which can be achieved at an early age. Thus, this helps in curbing the transmission and addresses preventive strategies. In India, which strongly represents the developing world; even though the schools do not impress in terms of infrastructure, the integration with the health sector is remarkable at the programmatic and health policy level. The article essays the roles for which schools have been used appreciably, more in the context of safety during trying conditions, and takes a sneak peek into the newer roles and challenges poised during the pandemic of COVID-19.

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