Health Promotion Program "Healthy Student"

Program Description and Objectives

The "Healthy Student" program aims to disseminate health promotion activities among students. Health is an indispensable condition for academic achievement and a good quality of life. Desirable attitudes and habits are shaped by acquiring health knowledge and skills. The program is aimed at children and young people attending public schools, for which the capital city of Warsaw is Warsaw is the governing body, i.e. primary and secondary schools.
The program is implemented primarily by school nurses, who collaborate with invited experts, such as doctors, dietitians, and midwives, to address specific topics.
The main goal of these activities is to provide students with the conditions to acquire knowledge about healthy behaviors and respect for their own health:

• Knowledge about personal hygiene, including oral hygiene, as a factor that has a close relationship between proper tooth brushing and periodontal disease and the occurrence of caries.
• Information on proper hygiene, rest and physical activity as a factor influencing physical and mental health
• Educating children and adolescents on a rational model of nutrition and drinking water as a factor that has a close relationship between nutrition and maintaining health
• Providing knowledge on the prevention of infectious diseases, including the impact of vaccinations
• Learning the principles and practicing the skills of providing first aid and learning how to avoid dangers
• Increasing awareness of early cancer detection and teaching self-examination of breasts in girls and testicles in boys
• Providing knowledge about risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and possible preventive measures.
• Education on the impact of smoking on the development of cardiovascular diseases

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