TY - JOUR

T1 - Health promoting schools and COVID-19

T2 - preparing for the future

AU - Sormunen, Marjorita

AU - Lattke, Lynda

AU - Dadaczynski, Kevin

AU - Leksy, Karina

AU - Sakellari, Evanthia

AU - Velasco, Veronica

AU - Borzucka-sitkiewicz, Katarzyna

AU - Miranda-velasco, Maria J.

AU - Rabaglietti, Emanuela

AU - Rosario, Rafaela

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Author(s) 2022.

PY - 2022/8

Y1 - 2022/8

N2 - We face an unprecedented period of history during which COVID-19 is clustered with other global conditions, such as obesity, undernutrition, an infodemic, and climate change. This syndemic (synergy of epidemics) calls for the development of children's and youth's health literacy and socioemotional skills, support for behavioural hygiene (e.g. washing hands, wearing masks), and adults' responsibility and caring. Moreover, it calls for creating conditions for healthy living and learning for all and paying extra attention to inequalities that have increased during the pandemic. Today, more than ever, there is an essential demand for schools to create environments that maintain and promote health for all. Within this commentary, we argue that whole-school approaches, such as the health promoting school, are essential to fight against the pandemic and to prepare schools for future challenges.

AB - We face an unprecedented period of history during which COVID-19 is clustered with other global conditions, such as obesity, undernutrition, an infodemic, and climate change. This syndemic (synergy of epidemics) calls for the development of children's and youth's health literacy and socioemotional skills, support for behavioural hygiene (e.g. washing hands, wearing masks), and adults' responsibility and caring. Moreover, it calls for creating conditions for healthy living and learning for all and paying extra attention to inequalities that have increased during the pandemic. Today, more than ever, there is an essential demand for schools to create environments that maintain and promote health for all. Within this commentary, we argue that whole-school approaches, such as the health promoting school, are essential to fight against the pandemic and to prepare schools for future challenges.

KW - Health promoting schools

KW - COVID-19

KW - pandemic

KW - children

KW - family

KW - teacher

KW - school leader

KW - non-teaching staff

KW - school community

KW - Health sciences

UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35491938

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/d883c668-d582-3983-a138-1410f482c9f1/

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132660756&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/14034948221091155

DO - 10.1177/14034948221091155

M3 - Comments / Debate / Reports

C2 - 35491938

VL - 50

SP - 655

EP - 659

JO - Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

JF - Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

SN - 1403-4948

IS - 6

ER -