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School Health

Del Rosso, J.M., & T. Marek. Class action: Improving school performance in the developing world through better health and nutrition. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1996. (161Kb PDF)
Drake L.J., C. Maier, M. Jukes, A. Patrikios, D.A.P. Bundy, A. Gardner, & C. Dolan. School age children: Their health and nutrition. SCN News 25 (2002): 4-30. (244Kb PDF)
Favin, M., M. Yacoob, & D. Bendahmane. Behaviour first: A minimum package of environmental health behaviours to improve child health. Environmental Health Project, Applied Study No. 10. USAID, 1999. (234Kb PDF)
Montresor, A., D.W.T. Crompton, T.W. Gyorkos, & L. Savioli. Helminth control in school-age children: A guide for managers of control programmes. Geneva: WHO, 2002. (1664Kb ZIP)
World Health Organization. Improving school health programmes: Barriers and strategies. WHO/HPR/HEP/96.2. Geneva, 1996. (1298Kb PDF)
World Health Organization. Research to improve implementation and effectiveness of school health programmes. WHO/HPR/HEP/96.3. Geneva, 1996. (2692Kb PDF)
World Health Organization. Strengthening interventions to reduce helminth infections; as an entry point for the development of Health-Promoting Schools. WHO Information Series on School Health. WHO/SCHOOL/96.1. Geneva, 1997. (2963Kb PDF)
World Health Organization. WHO Global School Health Initiative. Health promoting schools: A healthy setting for living, learning and working. WHO/HPR/HEP/98.4. Geneva, 1998.  
World Bank. School deworming at a glance. Information sheet. March, 2003. (34Kb PDF)

BELIZE

Belize Ministry of Education, Planning Unit. School health and family life: Education needs assessment survey. Belize Report, (CARICOM Health and Family Life Education Project, 1997.  

GHANA

Ghana Partnership for Child Development. An evaluation of the impact of school-based interventions on the health and education of school children in three districts of the Volta Region, Ghana. Resurvey I. Documentation Series Report 10. 1997.  

UGANDA

Ankrah, E.M., & C.B. Rwabukwali. Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) study for school health education: Implications for AIDS control. Kampala, Uganda: UNICEF, 1987.  

ZAMBIA

Maier, C., & A.M. Hoffmann. FRESH Initiative: Focusing resources on effective school health. Paper presented at IRC School Sanitation & Hygiene Education symposium, Delft, the Netherlands, June 2004 (46Kb PDF)

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