New Brunswick’s Community School Approach: A Form of Comprehensive School Health
Abstract
Comprehensive School Health, an emerging trend in school health promotion, is being implemented in countries all around the globe. In the province of New Brunswick, in Canada, another approach, the Community School, has been introduced to over 50 schools across the province. This paper uses results from semi-structured interviews to describe how the Community School can be used as an approach to the implementation of Comprehensive School Health. By implementing the Community School in such a way that fills all the required components of CSH (Teaching and Learning of Health, Supportive Social Environment, Health Services, and Healthy Physical Environment), this paper argues that the Community School can be a viable approach to implementing Comprehensive School Health in one elementary school in New Brunswick.
À travers le monde, beaucoup de pays s’affairent à implanter l’approche globale de la santé en milieu scolaire, une nouvelle tendance dans le domaine de la promotion de la santé à l’école. Au Canada, la province du Nouveau-Brunswick privilégie une autre approche, celle de l’école communautaire. Cette dernière est déjà en place dans plus de 50 de ses écoles. Cet article se penche sur les résultats d’entrevues mi-structurées pour déterminer en quoi l’approche axée sur l’école communautaire peut faciliter l’instauration de l’approche globale de la santé en milieu scolaire. Si le concept de l’école communautaire est instauré de manière à satisfaire à toutes les exigences de l’approche globale de la santé en milieu scolaire (enseignement et apprentissage de la santé, contexte social habilitant, services de santé, environnement physique sain), l’article argue que l’approche de l’école communautaire peut être viable et favoriser l’intégration de l’approche globale de la santé en milieu scolaire dans une école élémentaire du Nouveau-Brunswick.
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