Advancing a Health Promoting Schools Agenda for Black Students

Download or read book Advancing a Health Promoting Schools Agenda for Black Students written by Lawrence Nyika and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book centralizes the importance of using culturally relevant models within health promoting schools (HPS) to promote the participation of Black students. In current HPS models Black students are often overlooked. The author presses beyond the mainstream, science-focused research on HPS to grapple with issues of power, prejudice, and oppression and focus on the social determinants of health. By focusing on social constructs as a constraint to Black students’ wellbeing (rather than only disease), chapters present a multidimensional whole-school intervention aimed at comprehensively bridging the empowerment gap between Black students and historically privileged students.