The Ministry of Health and Prevention launches a health awareness campaign on the occasion of return...

The Ministry of Health and Community Protection launched a health awareness campaign on the occasion of back to school, which extends from August 17 to August 31, with the aim of providing parents and students with the necessary knowledge and skills on the importance of following healthy lifestyles when returning to school, in terms of promoting physical activity, eating healthy foods, and organizing hours Sleep, and control watching electronic screens.
The campaign also focused on raising awareness of seasonal influenza and respiratory diseases and preventing their transmission by taking preventive precautionary measures, cooperating with the educational and health authorities in the country, and encouraging community members to participate in vaccination campaigns to raise the rate of vaccination coverage, to take the annually updated vaccine to provide protection against common viruses.
School health promotion
His Excellency Dr. Hussein Abdul Rahman Al-Rand, Assistant Undersecretary for the Public Health Sector, said that the health awareness campaign launched by the Ministry with partners from government and private agencies comes within the framework of the "Health Promoting Schools" initiative, which is a joint initiative between the World Health Organization and UNESCO, which aims to enhance the quality of education. Health and psychological and social life of students, with emphasis
To implement innovative activities and programs that meet the health needs of students, by promoting the concept of nutrition and physical activities that improve the health, well-being and well-being of students, in line with the National Nutrition Strategy.
HE Al-Rand stressed the Ministry's keenness to provide valuable information and resources to establish a safe and healthy environment, in conjunction with the return of students to their classrooms, pointing to the Ministry's close cooperation with educational authorities to implement the campaign within the framework of fruitful collective efforts, to establish the importance of proper nutrition in schools and instill the foundations of a lifestyle. Health, which affects the health and process of growth and development in children, in addition to being a key factor in supporting mental abilities and developing students’ academic achievement.healthy lifestyle
In her turn, Nouf Khamis, Director of the Health Promotion Department at the Ministry, explained that the health awareness campaign on the occasion of returning to schools, launched by the Ministry in cooperation with partners, comes within the framework of the Ministry's efforts to establish healthy lifestyle practices and physical activity among school students, promote healthy school environments, and control the use of electronic screens. This is within the framework of the outputs of the National Strategy for Nutrition, Quality of Life and Combating Childhood Obesity.
Nouf Khamis pointed out that the activities of the campaign aim to introduce students to food groups, foods, healthy habits and physical activity. The event also included an interactive activity corner for children. Providing a body mass index (BMI) examination for parents and preparing some healthy recipes using products
Healthy local food from sustainable sources, and noted that the campaign uses various communication channels, including social media platforms, educational institutions, health care facilities, and shopping centers.
Six community events were organized in "Lulu Hypermarket" centers, in cooperation with the representative offices of the Ministry in the regions of the country, and an awareness event for the employees of the Ministry of Health and Prevention. The events included several activities, including healthy cooking workshops for parents with their children to prepare school meals in a healthy way under the supervision of a chef, providing nutritional advice on ways to keep foods in the school lunch bag for long school hours, and introducing parents to the most important numbers to enhance the health of their children, with the concept of 5210, 5 classes. of fruits and vegetables, playing and physical movement for an hour a day, and less than two hours of watching
Daily e-screens, avoiding sweetened and energy drinks, with dietitians and health educators, ways to prepare a healthy school lunch bag, body mass checks, health advice for parents and quizzes. In addition to distributing a booklet of healthy recipes and providing virtual awareness workshops to students' families and employers
The campaign comes within the framework of the Ministry's strategy aimed at managing preventive and community health programs that enhance the quality of healthy life at the state level, and raise the level of public health among a preventive, aware, safe and health-conscious society. In addition to raising students' and parents' awareness of the importance of health preventive practices and enhancing adherence to them in the school environment. This is part of the Ministry's plans to provide valuable information and resources to establish a safe and healthy environment, in conjunction with the students' return to their classrooms, in close cooperation with the educational authorities.