title: Toward a healthy high schools movement: strategies for mobilizing public health for educational reform.
abstract: Although research shows that education and health are closely intertwined, health professionals have difficulty using this evidence to improve health and educational outcomes and reduce inequities. We call for a social movement for healthy high schools in the United States that would improve school achievement and graduation rates; create school environments that promote lifelong individual, family, and community health and prevent chronic illness, violence, and problems of sexual health; and engage youths in creating health-promoting environments. Achieving these goals will require strengthening and better linking often uncoordinated efforts to improve child health and education. Only a broad social movement has the power and vision to mobilize the forces that can transform educational and health systems to better achieve health and educational equity.
authors.affiliation: Kellogg Community Health Scholar Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ruglis
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Freudenberg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003479:Curriculum; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D015980:Public Health Practice; D012572:School Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012574:Schools / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012931:Social Environment; D012940:Social Problems / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States