Evaluation of Environmental Health Indices in Schools of a City in Khorasan Razavi, Iran

Background & Aims of the Study: Environment health of schools described is one of theprimary determinants of students’ health. Undoubtedly, physical environment has a veryimportant role on the education efficiency of children in the schools and nobody canneglect the importance. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate conditions ofenvironment health in schools of Khaf City.Materials & Methods: This cross sectional survey was performed in all schools of Khafcity by use a census. The data were collected by a questionnaire. A face to face interviewmethod was used to obtaining the data. Finally, the data were statistically processed bymeans of Excel and SPSS software.Results: The results of the present study showed that most of schools had good buildingconditions. But only four schools (9.5%) were equipped with health care services. Also, 13schools (31%) out of the 42 schools had no good green space. Parameters of physicalenvironment in all school were good. But in healthy water foundations case, 19 schools(45.2%) had no good conditions.Conclusions: The findings of the present survey suggest that poor conditions of healthfulenvironment especially problems regarding safe water supply, can be attributed to lack ofauthorities knowledge about environment health regulations. In most cases qualitativeeducational aspects were considered and little attention was paid on qualitative items.

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EnvironmentHealth SchoolsIndicesKhaf ، Iran