School health services
Implications for action
School health services, many adolescents’ first point of contact with health systems, need to be better exploited. Their links with community services should be strengthened and they should take an integrated approach to health promotion. A WHO/Europe survey showed that action is needed:
•to improve access to and the quality of school health services;
•to ensure equal access to services for all groups of young people;
•to better align the services’ content with health priorities;
•to improve workforce knowledge and skills through specialized training programmes; and
•to involve families, care providers and teachers more actively in school-based health promotion programmes