shool improvement.Persistence in garnering support for health programs rather than finding the niche of the health-promotion process in ongoing school improvement efforts contributes to insurmountable language and organizational barriers that detract from the existent value of health in the school setting.Instead,what school health professionals should " bring to the table" is their knowledge and skills in the utilization of "theoretically sound processes to design, implement and evaluate health promoting interventions" at the macro, organizational level, providing leadership for continuous school improvement.
Kolbe noted that " not all school health programs are effective. Importantly, programs that are not specifically designed and organized to achieve a given goal should not be expected to attain that goal.He proposed that modern school health programs must be designed to achieve not only health literacy and health behavior outcomes, but also academic