TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gard,Michael
AU  - Pluim,Carolyn
TI  - Schools and public health: past, present, future 
T2  - Critical education policy and politics
SN  - 9781498536097
AV  - LB3409.U5 G37 2014
U1  - 371.7/1 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Public schools
KW  - Health promotion services
KW  - United States
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - fast
KW  - Volksschule
KW  - gnd
KW  - Gesundheitserziehung
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-250) and index; Fear and loathing in Seattle -- A process, not a thing -- The birth of the miracle factory -- A dazzling variety -- Sex, drugs, and school food -- Reforming the self -- Obesity, schools, and history -- The "new" body work of being a teacher -- Health for sale -- A future without limits
N2  - "Schools and Public Health is a meditation on the past, present, and future of the relationship between public health and American public schools. Gard and Pluim begin by developing a historical account of the way schools have been used in the public health policy arena in America. They then look in detail at more contemporary examples of school-based public health policies and initiatives in order to come to a judgment about whether and to what extent it makes sense to use schools in this way. With this as the foundation, the book then offers answers to the question of why schools have so readily been drawn into public health policy formulations. First, seeing schools as a kind of 'miracle factory' is a long standing habit of mind that discourages careful consideration of alternative public health strategies. Second, schools have been implicated in public health policy in strategic ways by actors often with unstated political, cultural, ideological, and financial motivations. Finally, the authors call for a more sophisticated approach to public health policy in schools and suggest some criteria for judging the potential efficacy of school-based interventions. In short, the potential effectiveness of proposed interventions needs to be assessed not only against existing historical evidence, but also against the competing roles society expects schools to play and the working-life realities for those charged with implementing public health policies in schools."--
ER  -