Healthy Schools Promotion : An Experience in Thailand

The promotion of health education in schools has been operated continuously in Thailand with expecting to enhance a healthy society based on the definition of health under the new trend "A comprehensive and integrated health and social dimensions of body, mind and soul into a lifestyle linked and interrelated the human relationship with a physical and social environment". This research aims to remove the lessons on building health and well-being to children and youths in schools from nine development projects, and then to determine a platform of healthy schools in order to provide a framework to supporting the improvement of healthy children and youths in the context of schools in Thailand and to make it going in the same direction. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.