tailieunhanh - Creating an Environment for Emotional and Social Well-Being

But the Commission's hope for the future is conditional on decisive political action now to begin managing environmental resources to ensure both sustainable human progress and human survival. We are not forecasting a future; we are serving a notice - an urgent notice based on the latest and best scientific evidence - that the time has come to take the decisions needed to secure the resources to sustain this and coming generations. We do not offer a detailed blueprint for action, but instead a pathway by which the peoples of the world may enlarge their spheres of cooperation | The World Health Organization s INFORMATION SERIES ON SCHOOL HEALTH DOCUMENT 10 Creating an Environment for Emotional and Social Well-Being An important responsibility of a Health-Promoting and Child Friendly School WHO gratefully acknowledges the generous financial contributions to support the development layout and printing of this document from the Division of Adolescent and School Health National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta Georgia USA. WHO UNICEF WORLD BANK The principles and policies of each of the above agencies are governed by the relevant decisions of its governing body and each agency implements the interventions described in this document in accordance with these principles and policies and within the scope of its mandate. ii Material herein was originally prepared by Professor Suzanne Skevington WHO Consultant to the team in Mental Health Promotion and Policy August September 1999 with assistance from Mamata Puitandy and was originally titled Child Friendly Schools Checklist . Isolde Birdthistle prepared this document for the Department of Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence WHO by updating revising and supplementing the content of the original document. Jack T Jones Department of Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Health Promotion School Health and Youth Health Promotion and Shekhar Saxena Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence served as Project Officers for the revision and completion of this document. Further copies of this document may be obtained from the Department of Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Health Promotion or the Department of Mental Health and substance Dependence Evidence and Research World Health Organization 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland WHO would like to thank the following individuals who offered substantial comments and suggestions during the .