1: Linking Health and Learning: An Overview of Coordinated School Health Programs

This chapter is an introduction of a Coordinated School Health Program (CSHP). It discusses how students need’s will be met only when they are healthy, and that their overall well-being should be at the heart of a school program. Most serious injuries in school include; tobacco use, poor eating habits, abuse of alcohol and other drugs, behaviors that result in intentional or unintentional injury, physical inactivity, and sexual behaviors. When these problems emerge, they can disrupt student’s life, which in return affects their learning in school. A CSHP has eight components that will be effective towards students’ health, which will create a much better environment and behaviors for learning. At the moment a CSHP is more of a discussion, then actually movement. With concerns of students needs coming to the forefront, a CSHP seems to be a solution to the improvement of not only the learning capabilities of students, but to all individuals well-being throughout the world.
I found the expected outcome statistics of CSHP the most fascinating aspect of this chapter. I realized their would be a holistic affect in terms of health benefits to everyone throughout their lives, but I had never thought about the money it would save not only the individual, but the nation and all the programs and companies in the health field. Every dollar invested in tobacco, alcohol, and sexual behaviors education saves society a lot more then I would have ever expected.