ISHN & Partner Commentaries
This page contains a list of Commentaries published by ISHN and its partners on current trends, research and issues in school health, safety, equity, social and sustainable development. These are usually taken from our shared school health and development blog that reflects on the research, news stories, resource and reports identified in the ISHN Member information service or from ISHN partner newsletters. These commentaries often follow selected themes, trends or issues such as the ones noted below:
This page contains a list of Commentaries published by ISHN and its partners on current trends, research and issues in school health, safety, equity, social and sustainable development. These are usually taken from our shared school health and development blog that reflects on the research, news stories, resource and reports identified in the ISHN Member information service or from ISHN partner newsletters. These commentaries often follow selected themes, trends or issues such as the ones noted below:
- Integration of Health & Social Programs within Education Systems
This series of brief blog post/commentaries reflects recent research and much experience that suggests multi-intervention approaches and programs such as Healthy Schools, Safe Schools, Community Schools and many others often are not sustainable in the long term within education systems because they are not truly inserted within the core mandates, constraints and concerns of school systems. ISHN sponsors an International Discussion Group on this issue. - The Value and Limitations of School Physical Activity
This series of ISHN/Partner Commentaries examines the fallacy that school-based physical activity interventions alone can reduce body weight or prevent obesity. A number of detailed studies show how to maximize the amount of moderate and vigorous physical actiivty that cab be achieved in a school day but recognizes that revised diet, promotion of various forms of social support and addressing economic, structural and family lifestyle barriers may be more important than the influence of schools - The Limited Value and Myths of Random Controlled Trials and Systematic Reviews
This series of ISHN/Partner Commentaries tracks the debate now underway in peer-reviewed journals about the limited value of Randomly Controlled Trials and subsequent Systematic Reviews in producing usable knowledge for practitioners, officials and policy-makers. New methods for using research-based evidence that is combined with experience-tested understanding of the context and capacities in any given situation are suggested.