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FRESH is an acronym for Focusing Resources on Effective School Health, a world-wide UNESCO program for improving the health of school children and youths. [1] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ...
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ...
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An important initiative
The importance UNESCO attaches to this initiative can be seen from its introduction: [2]: - At the dawn of the 21st century, the learning potential of children and young people in every country in the world is compromised by conditions and behaviours that undermine the physical and emotional well-being that makes learning possible. Hunger, malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, intestinal infections, infection with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, malaria, violence, drug and alcohol abuse threaten the health and lives of the children and youth in which Education for All efforts are most invested.
- A substantial body of evidence supports approaches in which policy development, health-promoting environmental change, skills-based health education and school-based health services are strategically combined to address priority health problems that interfere with learning for the targeted group. Such approaches extend the vision of health to include emotional/mental and psychosocial wellbeing as well as physical health.
What is FRESH? Although aimed at improving learning opportunities for children and youths by first improving their health, FRESH is more than simply the provision of school health services. FRESH is a combination of activities in four core areas:[3] School Health Services are services from medical, teaching and other professionals applied in or out of school to improve the health and well-being of children and in some cases whole families. ...
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Health education is defined as the process by which individuals and groups of people learn to behave in a manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance or restoration of health. ...
The updated USDA food pyramid, published in 2005, is a general nutrition guide for recommended food consumption. ...
- Health and education
- Community partnership
- Student participation
Online tools Reflecting the mains themes of the program, online tools are available freely to all for whom they would be useful: Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
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Hygiene refers to practices associated with ensuring good health and cleanliness. ...
Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease that is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. ...
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Global challenges FRESH is linked to three global challenges: - Gender
- Eduction for All (EFA) and Quality Education[15]
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)[16]
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