Roles of Network Partners in Managing a Health Promoting School in Bangkok

Abstract

A health promotion school is a health promotion program at a school level organized to prevent public health problems. This program is conducted under a school’s role of being the beginning point and the center for health development along with education by integrating health promotion, disease prevention and control and environmental health, leading to a holistic development in the school area. This can be achieved by creating the cooperation between the government, private organizations, local administrative organizations and communities to ensure good health of the public. The objective of this article was to present problems in the implementation of a health promoting school and basic management, the participation among all sectors, the creation of network partners in both public and private sectors, communities and schools. These factors are important for the successful implementation of a health promoting concluded that problems should be solved in cooperation with Network partners and establish guidelines for creating the participation of the network partners for sustainable development.