Research & Capacity Building

Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being

Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being

The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), a WHO collaborative cross-national study, has been seeking to understand and monitor young people’s health across Europe and Canada for more than 30 years. As the study has grown to include 50 member countries and regions, the utility of the data..

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Questionnaire reopening schools and COVID-19

Questionnaire reopening schools and COVID-19

With the reopening of schools in countries where they have been closed, we are now entering a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. These nationwide and localized closures of schools are impacting over 90% of the world’s student population (around 1.3 billion children and young people). Reopening..

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A framework to guide an education response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020

A framework to guide an education response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020

OECD recently published a report which aims at supporting education decision making to develop and implement effective education responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In most countries around the world school-based education will be disrupted for several months due to the social isolation measures as..

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The school environment does matter for educational success and health!

The school environment does matter for educational success and health!

The school environment plays an important role in the educational success, well-being and health of students. The quality of life at school (the physical and/or social environment) represents one of the key determinants of successful education. Adequate access to water, sanitation and hygiene in schools..

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