An Epidemiological Study of Health Status of School Students in India : Morbidity patterns of class 9th & 10th class school students in East Delhi

Promoting the health of children through schools has been an important goal of WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF and other international agencies since 1950s. Major international meetings to improve school health include: the WHO Expert Committee on School Health Services in 1950, the WHO Expert Committee on Health Education in 1954, the Joint WHO/UNESCO Expert Committee on Teacher Preparation for Health Education in 1959, the UNESCO/ WHO collaboration to publish Planning for health education in schools in 1966, the WHO Expert Committee on New Approaches to Health Education in Primary Health Care in 1983, the WHO/UNICEF International Consultation ON Health Education for school age Children in 1985, the Technical Discussion on The Health of Youth at the Forty second World Health Assembly in 1989, the WHO/UNESCO/ILO World Consultation on Strategies for Implementing Comprehensive School Health Education / Promotion Programmes in 1991 and the WHO/UNESCO Global Conference on School Health and HIV Prevention in 1995.