Publication: SABER - School Health : Preliminary Assessment of School Health Policies in the Caribbean Community
Date
2012-03
ISSN
Published
2012-03
Author(s)
Ebenezer, Roshini
Nannynonjo, Harriet
Abstract
This report presents the findings of the
2012 pilot assessment of the school health policies for the
following Caribbean community (CARICOM) countries: Dominica,
Grenada, Guyana, St. Lucia, Barbados, and St. Vincent and
the Grenadines. The objective of this exercise is to help
countries to identify the strengths and weaknesses in their
school health policy frameworks, with the understanding that
sound a policy framework is a critical component of
effective school health programming. The result is a
preliminary report on the status of development of the
school health policy framework in the six countries. Section
one gives introduction. Section two briefly discusses the
importance of school health programs in contributing to
education sector goals and the development of international
consensus on the basic building blocks of effective school
health programs. Section three discusses the conceptual
framework of system assessment and benchmarking for
education results (SABER) - school health, and introduces
the components of the SABER - school health framework and
scoring system. Section four provides the context for and
objectives of this assessment as well the methodology used
for data collection. Section five presents the results for
the six countries: first by individual country and then as a
comparative analysis across each of four policy domains.
Citation
“Ebenezer, Roshini; Nannynonjo, Harriet. 2012. SABER - School Health : Preliminary Assessment of School Health Policies in the Caribbean Community. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21544 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”