Can schools be a healthy environment?

Irene on 27/01/2019

What is school health?

  • a healthful environment for students and teachers,
  • health services that students need to stay in school,
  • nutritious school meals,
  • opportunities for physical activity (physical education etc)
  • health education taught by knowledgeable teachers
  • programs that promote the health of school faculty and staff, and
  • counseling, psychological and social services

What can schools do?

  • Hire a full-time certified school nurse who spends most of his or her day attending to the acute and chronic health needs of students such as acute health problems and also refers children to their physician for physical exams, diagnosis, and treatment. School nurses can also play a central role in promoting a healthy and safe school environment. He or she is responsible for training other staff members (teachers, administrators, secretaries, health aides) to handle acute health situations when the nurse is not on site.
  • Urge the nurse practitioner to work­ with consulting physicians, school nurses, social workers, or health educators in a school-based health center where routine medical care is delivered in the school. This has been an important and successful way to provide care to students in areas where care has been limited because of a lack of health-care providers, an absence of insurance, or transportation problems.

Environment and us

Irene on 20/01/2019

The environment is something we are very familiar with. It’s everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth—the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth’s surface, the plants and animals around us, and much more.
In recent years, scientists have been carefully examining the ways that people affect the environment. They have found that we are causing air pollution, deforestation, acid rain, and other problems that are dangerous both to the earth and to ourselves.


Things we can do to save “the environment”:

  • Recycle
  • Do not use the car all the time
  • Compost
  • Do not throw garbage in the sea
  • Protect the forests

These days, when you hear people talk about “the environment”, they are often referring to the overall condition of our planet, or how healthy it is.