TY - CHAP
T1 - The whole-school ecosystem approach for promoting health and satisfaction with life among adolescents
AU - Tomé, Gina
AU - Reis, Marta
AU - Branquinho, Cátia
AU - Almeida, Adriano
AU - Ramiro, Lúcia
AU - Gaspar, Tânia
AU - de Matos, Margarida Gaspar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - Young people’s well-being and life satisfaction are influenced by their interaction with the various environmental contexts in which they are embedded as they grow older, namely social, and interpersonal environments constituted by family, peers, school, and local community. As such, health promotion among youngsters cannot be disassociated from their most usual environment, and this is firmly advocated in the whole-school approach to health promotion. This chapter reflects upon the association between physical, social, and affective environmental variables and life satisfaction and health perception of adolescents. A case study from Portugal within the framework of an international World Health Organization monitoring program of youngsters’ health and health behaviors is used to establish the relevance of environmental variables broadly considered. Available evidence supports the role of a whole-school ecosystem approach to health promotion in contributing to positive health and well-being outcomes among adolescents. This is relevant information for supporting decision-making in education and health.
AB - Young people’s well-being and life satisfaction are influenced by their interaction with the various environmental contexts in which they are embedded as they grow older, namely social, and interpersonal environments constituted by family, peers, school, and local community. As such, health promotion among youngsters cannot be disassociated from their most usual environment, and this is firmly advocated in the whole-school approach to health promotion. This chapter reflects upon the association between physical, social, and affective environmental variables and life satisfaction and health perception of adolescents. A case study from Portugal within the framework of an international World Health Organization monitoring program of youngsters’ health and health behaviors is used to establish the relevance of environmental variables broadly considered. Available evidence supports the role of a whole-school ecosystem approach to health promotion in contributing to positive health and well-being outcomes among adolescents. This is relevant information for supporting decision-making in education and health.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Affective environment
KW - Health perception
KW - Health promotion
KW - Life satisfaction
KW - Physical environment
KW - School ecosystem
KW - Social environment
KW - Whole-school approach
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85205160046&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/b978-0-12-824000-7.00015-5
DO - 10.1016/b978-0-12-824000-7.00015-5
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85205160046
SN - 9780128242483
SP - 93
EP - 100
BT - Environmental Health Behavior
PB - Elsevier
ER -