Nutrition and Fitness

Dental Therapists Fill a Void

May 11, 2011

"Oral health is key to overall health." --Gail C. Christopher

Fifty million people in the US live in areas where there is a lack of dental care.

When Bernadette Charles was a child, the dentist visited her rural Alaskan tribal community just once every two years.

For more information about this program, contact Al Yee at ayee@edc.org.

Healthy Action: An Activity Book for Teachers and Learners

Publication date: 
2011
Author(s): 
Education International (EI), Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO)

This toolkit is based on the premise that healthy students and teachers live better.

The activities herein are designed to help learners and teachers develop healthy

For more information or to obtain: 

Download a copy of the Healthy Action: An Activity Book for Teachers and Learners (PDF, 11.91 MB).

FRESH: School Health Toolkit

Publication date: 
2004
Author(s): 
HHD, EDC, UNESCO

HHD staff assisted UNESCO in adapting tools for a school health website and CD-ROM toolkit.

For more information or to obtain: 

Visit the FRESH website.

Teenage Health Teaching Modules (THTM)

Teenage Health Teaching Modules (THTM) is a successful, nationally-used, comprehensive school health curriculum for grades 6 to 12 that provides adolescents with the knowledge and skills to act in way

Project: 
Teenage Health Teaching Modules (THTM)

Health-Promoting Schools in China

After the two-year nutrition education pilot program Chinese students were eating breakfast, practicing better hygienic habits—washing hands, drinking clean water, and not eating expired

A FRESH Global School Health Initiative

HHD assisted the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in adapting materials for a comprehensive school health program, Focusing Resources on Effective School Health (FRE

Project: 
UNESCO Focusing Resources on Effective School Health (FRESH) School Health Website and CD-ROM Toolkit
Funder: 
UNESCO

Good Nutrition On The Road

HHD created a program with the Harvard Medical School to motivate hotel guests to make healthy lifestyle choices during their hotel stays and at home.

Project: 
Program for Lifelong Health Maintenance
Funder: 
Accor Asia Pacific

Curriculum to Enhance Health

Read for Health, a project funded by the MetLife Foundation, focuses on educating American adolescents and their parents about how nutrition and physical activity can enhance health.

Project: 
Read for Health
Funder: 
MetLife Foundation

Teenage Health Teaching Modules

Health Promotion in China’s Schools

In China’s Zhejiang Province, HHD has worked with the World Health Organization to provide training and assistance to schools in a pilot project that began several years ago to improve nutrit

Project: 
Health-Promoting Schools in China
Funder: 
United Nations Girls Education Initiative

Nutrition and Fitness

Adequate nutrition and physical fitness are vital to good health, learning, and workplace performance.

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