Abstract

 

Background: School is considered as a reliable place in educating and training people and plays a very constructive role in providing healthy and bracing life. Health-promoting school (HPS) program is one of the approved health programs to perform in schools and is important in terms of being effective on the health of students. Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the effects of health-promoting schools program on implamented and nonimplamented schools regarding environmental indicators. Patients and Methods: This case-control study conducted in 2013. Schools were divided into two groups, including health-promoting project schools (case group) and the schools which were non-promoter of health (control group). Data collection tool of this study was checklist that completed through visiting the schools by environmental health experts. Results: In this study, we investigated and compared the mean of the twelve environmental indicators and the findings show that8 of 12 indicators, had higher average renge than the control group. Conclusions: There was a significant relationship between the majority of environmental health indicators in the two groups of schools, and the status of the environmental health indicators in HPS program was more desirable than in control group. Thus, the HPS program can recommended as a new step in promoting environmental and health indicators in the schools acrrose the country