tailieunhanh - Skills-based health education including life skills: An important component of a Child-Friendly/Health-Promoting School

Attitudes are personal biases, preferences, and subjective assessments that predispose one to act or respond in a predictable manner. Attitudes lead people to like or dislike something, or to consider things good or bad, important or unimportant, worth caring about or not worth caring about. For example, gender sensitivity, respect for others, or respecting one’s body and believing that it is important to care for are attitudes that are important to preserving health and functioning well (adapted from Greene & Simons- Morton, 1984). For the purposes of this document, the domain of attitudes comprises a broad range of concepts, including values, beliefs, social norms, rights, intentions, and motivations | The World Health Organization s INFORMATION SERIES ON SCHOOL HEALTH DOCUMENT 9 Skills for Health Skills-based health education including life skills An important component of a Child-Friendly Health-Promoting School WHO gratefully acknowledges the generous financial contributions to support the 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. UNICEF WHO UNFPA 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. iii This document was prepared with the technical support of Carmen Aldinger and Cheryl Vince Whitman Health and Human Development Programmes HHD at Education Development Center Inc. EDC . HHD EDC is the WHO Collaborating Center to Promote Health through Schools and Communities. Amaya Gillespie of the Education Section at UNICEF and Jack T Jones of the Department of Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at WHO HQ guided the overall development and completion of this document. This paper drew on a variety of sources in the research literature and on consultation with experts from a previous paper Life Skills Approach to Child and Adolescent Healthy Development Mangrulkar L Vince Whitman C and Posner M published by the Pan American Health Organisation 2001 on a survey questionnaire administered to many international agencies at the global regional and national levels and on material developed by UNICEF and WHO. The draft for this paper was circulated widely to UNAIDS cosponsoring organisations and other partners identified below CONTRIBUTORS David Clarke Department for International Development London UK Don Bundy and Seung Lee World Bank .