Health and Wellbeing in Schools

Health and Wellbeing in
Schools
Health and Wellness
• Health refers to a state of physical, social, emotional and mental
wellbeing and not merely free from diseases
• Physical Health: It is the state of being free from illness or injury.

Understanding of physical health need awareness about physical
development, physical fitness, healthy and hygienic eating habits etc.
• Social Health: This includes the ability to interact with other person
well and the environment, work in team and to have satisfying
personal relationships.
• Emotional Health: It means the ability to control and manage

emotions so that one feel comfortable. A person is emotionally
healthy if one is able to express feeling appropriately
Health and Wellness
• Mental Health and Wellbeing: It is a state of well-being in which
the individual can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work
productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to
his or her community..
• Distress: Distress include fear, guilt, nervousness, and shame,
helplessness, doubting self, confusion, loneliness, sadness and
anger. This is a phase where the individual facing a challenge or
stress can either find solutions and move positively or might
require support or help.
• One can observe distressed feelings many ways such as decline in
academic performance, hyper active, angry or show misbehaviour
etc.
Physical Health and Physical
Development
Changes during the different phases of life

Infancy Childhood Adolescence Adulthood Aged
A Snapshot of Children Health in India
14 % 27 %
suffer from
54% 12 %
of girls in India
mental health
disorders 8-12% are married
before 18
girls are use tobacco and alcohol experience
anemic violence
One 8% teenage
student Perpetuates
Tobacco pregnancies
every contributes leading to poor
intergenerati to 30% 24% girls pregnancy
hour onal cycle of NCDs reported outcome
commits anemia spousal violence
suicide
Source: WHO 2008; WHO 2009; WHO 2011, NFHS4, NCRB 2015, GATS 2016,
Why invest in children ?
Triple benefit Investment of USD 5.2 Investments in

•Improve health per child/year led to secondary school
of children economic and social education will
•Improve future benefits at 10 times generate
adult health their cost economic benefits of
trajectories 12 times
• Improve health of the costs incurred
next generation of
children
Source: Lancet, 2017

Themes
Let us conclude
• Changes in our bodies are natural, normal and
healthy.
• All changes do not take place at the same time.
• Sometimes we can influence changes in our lives
and at other times we have little control over them.
• Sometimes, children feel stressed if they look
different from their peers.
• There are a lot of prejudices and harmful stereotypes
attached to growing up , which need to be discussed.
• Due to prejudices and ignorance ,they are drawn to
harmful or ineffective commercial products which
claim to increase height and muscle mass very
quickly, without any additional inputs.
• Children learn a lot from adults ,therefore , adults should
model healthy, honest and wise (mature) ways to express
feelings.
• it is important to counter physical beauty physical
appearance, leading to feelings of anxiety, inadequacy and
low self-esteem.
• Children should communicate in a clear, honest and
respectful manner without putting down either themselves or
the other
• Peer relationships is both positive and negative dimensions
• Self-confidence and assertiveness are essential for
maintaining positive relationships
• Children and their parents and teachers should interact more
so that they appreciate one another’s concerns and
understand each other better
Physical Fitness
• It also means the capacity to carry out daily
work with vigor and alertness.
• To be healthy, one requires doing physical
activities
Playing games and sports
Yoga,
healthy eating and hygienic habits.
Core Life Skills
Self-Awareness includes recognition of self, of one’s character,
Self-Awareness strengths and areas of growth, preferences, beliefs and values.
The ability to deal constructively with problems/ challenges that
Problem-solving arise, which if unresolved can lead to strain and stress.
The ability to evaluate existing options, arrive at constructive
Decision-making decisions and take appropriate actions.
The capacity to analyse information and experiences from
Critical Thinking multiple perspectives and objectively evaluate the same.
A novel way of seeing and doing things that includes
Creative Thinking fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration.
The ability to understand what life is for another person, even in a
Empathy situation with which one may not be familiar.
Managing Emotions The ability to recognize one’s own emotions, as well as those of
others and their influence on behaviour. Also includes the
capacity to develop an internal locus of control to monitor and
manage/regulate one’s emotions.
Interpersonal Skills The skills that facilitate one to relate in positive ways with people
And Effective around. The ability to express oneself, both verbally and non-
Communication verbally in culturally appropriate ways in different situations.
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Health and Wellbeing in

• Physical Health: It is the state of being free from illness or injury.

• Emotional Health: It means the ability to control and manage

Changes during the different phases of life

Triple benefit Investment of USD 5.2 Investments in

Source: Lancet, 2017

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