Achieving good standards in health promoting schools: preliminary analysis one year after the implementation of the Hong Kong Healthy Schools Award scheme.
BACKGROUND
Improving health literacy can be a strategy for the achievement of public health goals, and the concept of the Health Promoting School can help to build on the health literacy of students. The Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion of The Chinese University of Hong Kong launched the Hong Kong Healthy Schools Award (HKHSA) in 2001. This paper reports the results for the ten secondary schools that underwent assessment in 2002.


METHODS
Based on the overall score for each school, cluster analysis was performed. Each cluster of schools reflected different levels of HKHSA achievement.


RESULTS
This study has shown that those schools reaching high Health Promoting School standards have adopted the concept of a whole school approach in addressing health and social issues, rather than topic-based and school-located health promotion. The schools performing less satisfactorily mainly follow a prescriptive approach.


CONCLUSIONS
These results are a good source of reference for other schools in their Health Promoting Schools programmes.
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Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 4th Floor, Lek Yuen Health Centre, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong. alee@cuhk.edu.hk
Cheng
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Yuen
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Fung
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Leung
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D001363:Awards and Prizes; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000592:standards*; D006723:Hong Kong; D012574:Schools