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Royal Health Awareness Society
Annual Report 2018
HEALTHY SCHOOLS
The Healthy Schools program is a national accreditation program implemented in
collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education since 2008,
with an aim to create health-promoting environment within schools, reflecting
positively on students’ physical and social growing, as well as their academic
performance. The program is carried through national health standards which
participating schools are trained and supervised on to implement successfully.
The program focuses on public and preventive health education, such as personal
hygiene, oral hygiene, nutrition, physical activity, nutrition, drugs prevention and
tobacco control.
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