A vibrant reflection of the revised integrated school health policy with a lens on substance use

Substance use is rife amongst adolescents, including learners. Learners are easily exposed to substances with onset as early as 10 years and average age of drug experimentation is 12 years in South Africa. This results in many negative health and social outcomes, a challenge as far as the achievemen...

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Autores principales:	Linda Shuro, Firdouza Waggie
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	AOSIS 2021
Materias:	school health policy substance use south africa adolescents integrated political approach learners Medicine R Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:85a32d7c7bf44595a0bc9463a932255e2021-11-24T07:43:58ZA vibrant reflection of the revised integrated school health policy with a lens on substance use2071-29282071-293610.4102/phcfm.v13i1.3082https://doaj.org/article/85a32d7c7bf44595a0bc9463a932255e2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/3082https://doaj.org/toc/2071-2928https://doaj.org/toc/2071-2936Substance use is rife amongst adolescents, including learners. Learners are easily exposed to substances with onset as early as 10 years and average age of drug experimentation is 12 years in South Africa. This results in many negative health and social outcomes, a challenge as far as the achievement of global, regional and national goals such as quality education. The revised Integrated School Health Policy (ISHP) is a policy operating within the school environment aiming to address health and social barriers of learners and improve optimal health, comprising a vague action component on substance use prevention. This article is an opinion piece, which uses the Walt and Gilson model as an operational framework to analyse the revised ISHP within the lens of substance use. It assesses the four interrelated aspects: policy context, policy content, policy actors, and the policy process. The ISHP is placed within schools where adolescents are found and has the potential to reduce many health challenges such as substance use amongst learners. However, some issues are left to chance, such as health education on substance use prevention stated to only begin at Grade 4 (10 years), little mention of parental involvement, limited interplay amongst actors, limited investment in upskilling educators on dealing with substance use, scarce resources for implementation in all developmental phases and provinces to address substance use. Intervention can be more comprehensive with an intersectoral political approach needed to ensure that implementation addresses all multiple levels of influence of substance use amongst learners and the numerous health and social barriers.Linda ShuroFirdouza WaggieAOSISarticleschool health policysubstance usesouth africaadolescentsintegrated political approachlearnersMedicineRPublic aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENFRAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp e1-e6 (2021)
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description	Substance use is rife amongst adolescents, including learners. Learners are easily exposed to substances with onset as early as 10 years and average age of drug experimentation is 12 years in South Africa. This results in many negative health and social outcomes, a challenge as far as the achievement of global, regional and national goals such as quality education. The revised Integrated School Health Policy (ISHP) is a policy operating within the school environment aiming to address health and social barriers of learners and improve optimal health, comprising a vague action component on substance use prevention. This article is an opinion piece, which uses the Walt and Gilson model as an operational framework to analyse the revised ISHP within the lens of substance use. It assesses the four interrelated aspects: policy context, policy content, policy actors, and the policy process. The ISHP is placed within schools where adolescents are found and has the potential to reduce many health challenges such as substance use amongst learners. However, some issues are left to chance, such as health education on substance use prevention stated to only begin at Grade 4 (10 years), little mention of parental involvement, limited interplay amongst actors, limited investment in upskilling educators on dealing with substance use, scarce resources for implementation in all developmental phases and provinces to address substance use. Intervention can be more comprehensive with an intersectoral political approach needed to ensure that implementation addresses all multiple levels of influence of substance use amongst learners and the numerous health and social barriers.
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A vibrant reflection of the revised integrated school health policy with a lens on substance use

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