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Schools and Public Health - Past, Present, Future (Paperback)
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Schools and Public Health - Past, Present, Future (Paperback)
Series: Critical Education Policy and Politics
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Schools and Public Health is a meditation on the past, present, and
future of the relationship between public health and American
public schools. Gard and Pluim begin by developing a historical
account of the way schools have been used in the public health
policy arena in America. They then look in detail at more
contemporary examples of school-based public health policies and
initiatives in order to come to a judgment about whether and to
what extent it makes sense to use schools in this way. With this is
as the foundation, the book then offers answers to the question of
why schools have so readily been drawn into public health policy
formulations. First, seeing schools as a kind of 'miracle factory'
is a long standing habit of mind that discourages careful
consideration of alternative public health strategies. Second,
schools have been implicated in public health policy in strategic
ways by actors often with unstated political, cultural,
ideological, and financial motivations. Finally, the authors call
for a more sophisticated approach to public health policy in
schools and suggest some criteria for judging the potential
efficacy of school-based interventions. In short, the potential
effectiveness of proposed interventions needs to be assessed not
only against existing historical evidence, but also against the
competing roles society expects schools to play and the
working-life realities for those charged with implementing public
health policies in schools.
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