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. 2003 Sep;93(9):1570-5.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.93.9.1570.

Prevalence of school policies, programs, and facilities that promote a healthy physical school environment

Sherry Everett Jones  1 , Nancy D Brener, Tim McManus
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Prevalence of school policies, programs, and facilities that promote a healthy physical school environment

Sherry Everett Jones et al. Am J Public Health. 2003 Sep.

Abstract

Objectives: We examined the extent to which schools in the United States have health-promoting policies, programs, and facilities.

Methods: We analyzed data from the School Health Policies and Programs Study 2000.

Results: We found that public schools (vs private and Catholic schools), urban schools (vs rural and suburban schools), and schools with larger enrollments (vs smaller schools) had more health-promoting policies, programs, and facilities in place. On average, middle schools had 11.0 and middle/junior and high schools had 10.4 out of a possible 18 policies, programs, and facilities.

Conclusions: Although some schools had many healthy physical environment features, room for improvement exists. Resources are available to help schools improve their health-promoting policies, programs, and facilities.

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