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Health Promotion

Promoting healthy lifestyle choices in school

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Health promotion is the process of helping people to make healthy lifestyle choices and motivating them to become better managers of their own health.  School-based or school-linked health promotion is increasingly recognized as an effective way to coordinate efforts that promote health and prevent disease or other problems.

The links in the right-hand column provide information and lesson plans for schools and teachers to help promote healthy lifestyle choices.

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Communities and Schools Promoting Health
Links to thousands of health education lesson plans on a variety of health and life-style topics.
Healthy Schools BC
The portal assists users in accessing the array of healthy schools resources available in BC.
DASH BC
DASH BC helps inspire school communities to adopt a practical framework to create plans that will enhance student health and learning.


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