7Health Promoting Schools Healthy Schools: What Have we Learned?

’he health promoting schools movement was founded as a result of ’new ways of thinking ’ about several t global issues. Ecological sustainability and the ’new ’ public health A new awareness of the fragility of the world’s ecology and the limits to aggressive yet unsustainable growth prompted a changing view of human needs and well-being. The contribution of non-economic variables to ecological sustainability was recognised, such as clean air and water, education and health enjoyed for their own sake, and equity and social justice.’-A recognition of the importance of the social and environmental settings in which people spend their daily lives prompted a review of the focus on ill-health and disease. New strategies were suggested which could begi