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only about 55% of children from low-income
families are enrolled in junior secondary
easily reach girls with high priority education • Identify and develop a set of “packages/ A country’s education and economic status
and health and nutrition services. models” that take into account the three
schools.
main contexts in Indonesia (urban, rural,
is closely linked to its health status: improve
Young people must have access to
Encouraging and supporting efforts to help
information and skills to be able to protect island/coastal) and also the type of school. nutrition and health, and education and the
children enroll in and complete the basic
education cycle remain high priorities for the
themselves from high risk behaviors—e.g., • Continue and expand the current efforts economy will be strengthened.
smoking, alcohol, unsafe sexual practices, to ensure clean water and adequate
education sector.
and HIV/AIDS. Schools may offer one of
sanitation at all schools.
Providing a healthy environment for children the best venues for reaching all young
• Improve the quality of health education/ Improving nutrition and health among the their health status and learning capacity; it of disease reduce the overall transmission
and overcoming any health and/or nutrition people with the information and education
school-aged, like the critical effort to do the also leads to intergenerational nutrition and of disease in the wider community. The
(hunger) barriers to school enrollment and that will help them lead healthier and safer behavior focused communications.
same for infants, is a strategic element in the health benefits and long-term economic gain from improving health and nutrition
participation are important for reaching lives. In addition, schools are also the best
• Develop separate models for stemming the effort to develop the community. In short, gains. Girls who stay in school tend to delay at school age is therefore a combination
education goals. opportunity for promoting appropriate
tide of overweight and obesity. healthier and better nourished children stay childbearing longer than school-leavers, of all of these benefits — to health and
nutrition, food choices and physical activity
At school-age, especially in adolescence, in school longer, learn more, and become and merely delaying childbearing brings the to education in the short-term and in the
to help prevent overweight in children.
young people begin to make independent healthier and more productive adults. further benefits of a lower birth rate, better long- term.
The proportion of school-age children in
decisions about their health and to form Next Steps Addressing nutrition and health among birth outcomes, and better child health.
Indonesia with a high Body Mass Index
attitudes and adopt behaviors that influence school-age children does more than improve And school-age children with lower levels
(BMI) is alarmingly high in some provinces
their current and future health as well as
and appears to have dramatically increased • Utilize on-going good practices
the health of their future children. Girls,
in the past seven years. Effective promotion mechanism to identify private sector,
particularly adolescent girls, are the key to
of key health, nutrition and physical activity
Why Health and Nutrition in School?
the health of future generations. Good NGO and/or government-supported
practices is crucial to alleviating the
physiological development during school-based health and nutrition
significant burden of overweight, obesity and
adolescence prepares girls for pregnancy, interventions/programs that offer
non-communicable diseases.
childbirth, and motherhood.
potential for creating context-specific School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Many of the diseases and cases of healthy environment (e.g., safe water and
“good practice models” for SHN. interventions are important investments in malnutrition that have a negative impact on sanitation); skills-based health education;
Document and package these “good achieving Education for All since poor health school-age children are preventable and/or and the provision of school-based health
and nutrition among school-age children treatable. Schools offer a readily available and nutrition services (see Box 1 on page 3).
practices” linked to specific contexts.
Providing a healthy environment impedes the achievement of education venue for reaching many if not most children
SHN interventions also improve equity.
for children and overcoming any • Create a SHN tool kit and training goals. Diseases and malnutrition affect of school age, and since some treatments
Diseases and some forms of malnutrition
health and/or nutrition (hunger) modules building from local “good children throughout childhood, and while are inexpensive, SHN interventions are
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