WHO, UNESECO back new standards on student health

(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) GENEVA, June 22 (KUNA) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN's cultural agency UNESCO have set "new standards" that focus on student health more than a year after the COVID pandemic forced more than a billion children out of school."Schools play a vital role in the well-being of students, families and their communities, and the link between education and health has never been more evident," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a statement on Tuesday.The new standards aim to ensure "all schools promote life skills, cognitive and socioemotional skills and healthy lifestyles for all learners," said a statement by the global health body.He hoped the new standards would provide all schools and educational facilities with a resource to help "foster health and wellbeing," which in turn, would help create more "health-conscious" children," added the statement. (end) ta.nam MENAFN22062021000071011013ID1102328752