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Citation

Ruglis J, Freudenberg N. Am. J. Public Health 2010; 100(9): 1565-1571.

Affiliation

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, American Public Health Association)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2009.186619

PMID

20634448

Abstract

Although research shows that education and healthare 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. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print July 15, 2010: e1-e7. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.186619).


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