UNESCO shares international experience to advance school health and nutrition in Viet Nam

These programmes can also represent an efficient public investment. According to evidence presented at the workshop, school feeding can generate an estimated US$9 in returns for every US$1 invested, while school-based programmes addressing mental health may generate considerably higher long-term returns.

A central theme of UNESCO’s presentation was the Health-Promoting Schools approach, developed and promoted internationally by WHO, UNESCO and UNICEF.

A health-promoting school makes sustained efforts to create a safe and healthy environment for teaching, learning and working. In practice, this requires health and well-being to be incorporated into the way education systems and schools operate. This includes leadership, financing, curriculum and teaching methods, teacher preparation, school management and the measures used to assess institutional performance.

UNESCO therefore highlighted the importance of a whole-school and whole-system approach. Under this model, what students learn in the classroom is reinforced through school policies, relationships, extracurricular activities, school leadership and cooperation with families and communities.

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