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. 2010 Jul 1;101(Suppl 2):S19–S21. doi: 10.1007/BF03405620

Facilitating Health and Education Sector Collaboration in Support of Comprehensive School Health

Favoriser la collaboration entre les secteurs de la santé et de l’éducation afin d’appuyer l’Approche globale de la santé en milieu scolaire (AGSS)

Consortium conjoint pour les écoles en santé (CCES), Cindy Bachop 1,
PMCID: PMC6973905  PMID: 21133197

Abstract

Comprehensive school health (CSH) is embraced internationally as the most effective way of promoting the health of students and the school community. It is a framework for supporting improvements in students’ educational outcomes while addressing their well-being in a planned, holistic way. While many successful CSH initiatives are brought about by passionate individuals at the grassroots level, these initiatives benefit greatly from effective cross-sector collaborations within and among governments to coordinate policy and funding from the health and education sectors.

Governments represent just one group of professionals within the myriad of players involved in implementing CSH in Canada. To be effective contributors to the model, all levels of government need to work together to reduce duplication while at the same time minimizing gaps in the policies and practices that support school health promotion. Collaboration between the health and education sectors within and across governmental boundaries is proving to be an effective mechanism for achieving this. In its first five-year mandate, the Pan Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health has broken new ground in horizontal integration and, as a result, has identified a set of key factors necessary for successful cross-sector collaboration.

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Key words: Cross-sector, collaboration, comprehensive school health

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Favoriser la collaboration entre les secteurs de la santé et de l’éducation afin d’appuyer l’Approche globale de la santé en milieu scolaire (AGSS)

Footnotes

Disclaimer: Cindy Bachop, former Manager of Cross Sector Strategic Engagement, Pan Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health, takes responsibility for the work reported and the content of the manuscript. The position expressed in this article does not necessarily represent the position of individual member jurisdictions within the Pan Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health.

Conflict of Interest: None to declare.

Exonération de responsabilité: Cindy Bachop, ancienne gestionnaire de l’engagement stratégique intersectoriel du CCES, est responsable des travaux mentionnés et du contenu du manuscrit. Le point de vue exprimé dans le présent article ne reflète pas nécessairement celui de chaque gouvernement membre du Consortium conjoint pour les écoles en santé.

Conflit d’intérêts: Aucun à déclarer.

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