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What is Comprehensive School Health?
Health and education are strongly connected: healthy students are better learners, and better-educated individuals are healthier. Research shows that comprehensive school health approaches can lead to improvements in children's academic achievement, as well as in their health and well-being - improving their quality of life and encouraging healthy behaviours that last a lifetime.![](http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/sites/healthyschoolcommunities/jcsh_logo.jpg?8219)
- Social and Physical Environment
- Teaching and Learning
- Programs, Partnerships and Services
- Healthy School Policy
Comprehensive School Health:
- Recognizes that healthy young people learn better and achieve more
- Understands that schools can directly influence students' health and behaviours
- Encourages healthy lifestyle choices and promotes students' health and well-being
- Incorporates health into all aspects of school and learning
- Links health and education issues and systems
- Needs the participation and support of families and the community at large
Visit Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health for more information on healthy schools and to view the Comprehensive School Health framework.