Health Promotion and Health Education at School during COVID19 Pandemic

Abstract

School is an educational environment in which statutory activities include care for the proper, sustainable development of children and young people. This institution is the best place to take multi-directional actions in the field of health promotion and health education, especially now when the whole world is operating in the COVID19 pandemic.
In line with assumptions of health promotion and health education, the effective impact on human’s health requires not only increasing level of health knowledge, but also shaping their life skills which serve health, e.g. the ability to cope with a stress, but also interventional environmental measures aimed at increasing the impact of health support factors and reducing or eliminating those that harm health.
School and its teachers are facing the need to create a new dimension of health education, in which people should be taught the right attitudes in the face of the epidemic health threat of the COVID 19 pandemic. Threats that equally affect physical health and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection, as well as the threats associated with deteriorating of people’s mental health due to prolonged stress and the need of remote work and study, which result in symptoms of digital fatigue.
Teachers have the main tasks in building health-promoting behavioral patterns. The primary competence of the teacher in times of pandemic becomes the ability to shape the right choices for students and make decisions about health and health safety.