Exploring The Strengths, Challenges and Improvement Strategy For Health-Promoting Schools From School Health Experts
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Research/Original Article (دارای رتبه معتبر)
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Background And Objective
Schools provide an important setting to promote health, especially in Iran with about 12 million children, moreover for school staff, families, and communities. The health-promoting schools approach has been implemented in Iranian schools. This qualitative study aimed to explore the perspectives of school health experts towards the strengths, challenges, and improvement strategy for health promoting schools.Methods
In This qualitative study, data was collected using semi-structured interviews with 14 health schools, professionals and 3 school headmasters in seven provinces of Iran. We recruited interviewers through purposeful sampling. Thematic analysis was conducted to analyze the data by using MAXQDA ver 10.Results
The results were categorized into eight themes. The main strength, perceived in " based on participatory program "," feedback-driven program"," training- driven program"," a systematic program". The main perceived weakness was ''inefficient executive structural mechanism "and" inefficient property of the program "Improve the supporting infrastructure," and" Reload executive structures were suggested as a corrective mechanism from participants view point.Conclusion
The effectiveness of the health promoting school program, as well as all successful programs in health system requires revision and localization. Keywords:
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Persian
Published:
Journal of Health Education and Health Promotion, Volume:5 Issue: 3, 2017
Pages:
240 to 250
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