COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEALTHFUL SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT ON PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF KATHMANDU VALLEY

Abstract

To maintain a healthful school environment, the responsibility of the teacher is crucial. The objective of the study was to assess the situation of the healthful environment of private and public schools and compare them with special reference to healthful school environments. The cross-sectional study was carried out in 120 private school students and 120 public school students with an aim of assessing the situation of healthful school environment.In public schools, the sport facilities were high. Seventy five percent of students were facilitated from extra-curricular activities.  Likewise, the private school students feel high stress and pressure in the teaching learning environment as compared to public school. It should be ensured that the teachers and students of both schools should receive continued awareness programs and training related to health and hygiene for maintaining quality education. It can help them to spread the importance and need of better health in the community also. The level of development of a country is measured by the health status of its children.  The higher the mortality and morbidity in children, the more the country is challenged to improve its health care system.The promotion of health in schools requires a strong political commitment that will influence all levels of policy making, in other words national provincial and local towards an integrated and coordinated to levels that contravene these rights.School Health Programme has been part of schooling for most of this country. The health promoting school is a recently developed concept which seeks to provide a multifaceted approach to school health. It will provide a better framework to assist schools to address the health issues of their students. Also, this paper examines the development of the health promoting school and identifies its structural components of public school components. All students of public school had good relationships with teachers and 10 percent of students in private schools had the best relationship with teachers. The studies’ shows that the environmental health situation and sanitation practice in the study area was satisfactory but yet there are lots of issues relating to a healthful school environment.