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Foreword xiii
About the Book xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Contributors xix
Abbreviations xxv
Executive Summary 1
A Strong Education Rationale for Ensuring Good Health and Avoiding Hunger at School Age 2
Education Sector Benefits from a Life-Cycle Approach to Child Development 2
Health and Nutrition Interventions that Promote Gender Equity and Equality and Contribute to MDG3 3
Schools that Effectively Deliver School Health and Nutrition Interventions 4
The Substantial Experience of School Health and Nutrition Programs in Practice 5
Important Technical Challenges Remain 7
The Importance of Partnerships to the Development of School Health and Nutrition Programs 7
Evolving Roles for Development Partners 8
Benefits of Simplification and Consolidation of Program within Education Sector Plans 9
Enough Known to Act Now 10
Notes 11
Chapter 1 Context and Rationale 13
How This Book Is Organized 13
100 Years of School Health and School Feeding Programs in Rich Countries 15
Movement of School Health and Nutrition Programs to a Pro-Poor and Education-Outcomes Focus 16
Greater Harmonization of School Health and Nutrition Programs around a Common Framework 17
Growth in School Health Programs in Low-Income Countries since Dakar 2000 20
Emergence of HIV as a Programmatic Issue for the Education Sector 20
Growing Recognition of the Importance of School Feeding for Education 23
Rising Prevalence of Noncommunicable Diseases in School-Age Children in Low-Income Countries 26
Ensuring Support for the Most Marginalized Out-of-School Children 26
School Health and Nutrition Programs Today 27
Notes 28
References 28
Chapter 2 Evidence of the Importance of Health and Nutrition for Education for All 33
Impact on Education of Health and Nutrition Interventions at Different Stages in the Life Cycle of the Child 33
Evidence for Strategic Objective 1: Ensuring that Children Are Ready to Learn and Enroll on Time 36
Evidence for Strategic Objective 2: Keeping Children in School by Enhancing Attendance and Reducing Dropout Rates 40
Evidence for Strategic Objective 3: Improving Learning at School by Enhancing Cognition and Educational Achievement 42
Estimating the Scale of Impact of Health and Nutrition on Educational Outcomes 48
Estimating the Scale of Benefit of Health and Nutrition Interventions 51
Conclusions: Evidence of the Importance of Health and Nutrition for Education for All 59
Notes 61
References 62
Chapter 3 Education Sector Responses to the Health and Nutrition of Schoolchildren 67
Interventions before School Age 67
Maternal and Child Health 68
Early Child Development Programs 69
Interventions at School Age 73
Deworming 74
School Feeding 77
Micronutrients 88
Malaria Control 94
HIV Prevention and Care 98
Hygiene, Water, and Sanitation 109
Promoting Oral Health 111
Childhood Disability, Education, and School Health 116
Vision: Correcting Refractive Error 120
Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases 126
Conclusions: Education Sector Responses to the Health and Nutrition of Schoolchildren 134
Notes 138
References 139
Chapter 4 School Health and Nutrition Programs in Practice 159
Issues in Designing School Health and Nutrition Programs 160
Expanding Coverage and Targeting the Poor 160
Defining Sectoral Roles 161
Delivery Costs and the Use of the School as a Platform 164
Prioritizing Interventions on the Basis of Cost and Need 165
Examples of Programs in Practice 168
Expanding and Refining Existing Programs 168
The Philippines' Fit for School Program 168
The Sri Lanka School Health Promotion Program 174
School health and school feeding in Guyana 177
Including the Components of School Health and Nutrition Programs in a Sectorwide Education Approach 180
The Kenya education SWAp approach 180
Strengthening school health in Indonesia 184
Conclusion: School Health and Nutrition Programs in Practice 188
Note 190
References 190
Chapter 5 Partnerships to Develop Consensus and Share Knowledge 193
Design and Implementation Issues for School Health and Nutrition Programs 194
Design and Implementation Issues for HIV/AIDS and Education Programs 208
Intergovernmental Regional Networks that Share Knowledge among Countries 215
Support for National Programs 223
Conclusions: Partnerships Develop Consensus and Share Knowledge 232
Notes 235
References 235
Chapter 6 School Health and Nutrition Programs as a Component of Education for All 237
The Education Sector Case for School Health and Nutrition Programs 238
A Life-Cycle Approach to Child Development and Education 240
Health and Nutrition Interventions Can Promote Gender Equity and Equality and Contribute to MDG3 241
The Unfinished Research Agenda 241
An Evolving Role for Development Partners 242
A Time for Consolidation 244
Safe and Simple Interventions that Reach the Poor 244
Enough Known to Act Now 245
Appendix A Selected Bibliography of Source Materials and Toolkits 247
Appendix B Accelerating Deworming by the Education Sector: Checklist of Good Practice 255
Appendix C Accelerating the HIV/AIDS Response of the Education Sector in Africa: Checklist of Good Practice 261
Appendix D School Health and Nutrition Programs by Country in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Greater Mekong Subregion, and the Caribbean 269
Index 287
Boxes
3.1 Home-Grown School Feeding 84
3.2 Effective Sexuality Education 105
3.3 Promoting Hand Washing with Soap in Schools: The Institutionalizing of Hygiene in the Education Sector in Peru 112
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