FRESH is an acronym for Focusing Resources on Effective School Health, an inter-agency framework developed by UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank, launched at the Dakar Education Forum, 2000, which incorporates the experience and expertise of these and other agencies and organizations. It is a worldwide program for improving the health of school children and youth.[1]

Core areas

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:[2]

There are three supporting strategies:[3]

  • Effective partnerships between the education and health sectors
  • Community partnership
  • Student participation

Importance to UNESCO

The importance UNESCO attaches to this initiative can be seen from its introduction:[1]

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.

Online tools

Reflecting the main themes of the program, online tools are available freely to all:

Global challenges

FRESH is linked to three global challenges:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "UNESCO | Education - Overview of health themes". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-04.
  2. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - Why FRESH". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-02.
  3. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - THE FRESH SCHOOL HEALTH TOOL KIT". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2006-12-19.
  4. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - Planning and evaluation tools". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-04.
  5. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - School Health Policies Tools". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-04.
  6. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - Water, Sanitation and the Environment Tools". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2006-12-12.
  7. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - School-based Health Services Tools". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2009-10-06.
  8. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - HIV/AIDS Tools". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-01.
  9. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - Food and Nutrition Tools". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-04.
  10. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - Helminths and hygiene tools". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-04.
  11. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - Malaria Tools". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-04.
  12. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - Violence tools". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2006-12-13.
  13. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - Drugs, alcohol and tobacco tools". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-16.
  14. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - EFA and Quality Education". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-04.
  15. ↑ "UNESCO | Education - FRESH and Education for Sustainable Development". portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-04.
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