School Health and Nutrition Programs, the Role of Community Participation

Abstract

The aim of this paper was to identify the health and nutrition determinants from schoolchildren in the school context and analyzed the participation of the community to achieve the integral formation of schoolchildren. Health and nutrition programs are addressed, which are aimed at providing health education, physical education, health services, nutrition and food services to improve the health of schoolchildren, both physically and mentally and socially, which promote behaviors and healthy lifestyles. Included norms that regulate the participation of the community in school health and nutrition, and those that specifically address aspects of the life of the school to generate an atmosphere of safety, well-being and quality to ensure a better school and human development. To finally, analyzed the participation of the community in the school's health and nutrition; the parents or guardians are important in school and in the classroom, because they are the indirect recipients of the service offered, since without their collaboration and support it is more difficult to achieve the expected learning in the students. In conclusion, the school and the community are interrelated in a natural way, because the school is part of the community life, being necessary to improve the regulatory frameworks to ensure a true participation in the programs and actions of prevention and improvement of child health and nutrition, achieve the educational purposes and the integral formation of schoolchildren.