Help countries develop priorities, establish programs, and advocate for resources for school health and youth health programs and policies

According to both the WHO and the CDC, the Global School-Based Health Survey (GSHS) “was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with United Nations` UNICEF, UNESCO, and UNAIDS; and with technical assistance from CDC. GSHS is a school-based survey conducted primarily among students aged 13–17 years.

The purpose of the GSHS is to provide data on health behaviours and protective factors among students to:

• Help countries develop priorities, establish programs, and advocate for resources for school health and youth health programs and policies;

• Allow international agencies, countries, and others to make comparisons across countries regarding the prevalence of health behaviours and protective factors; and

• Establish trends in the prevalence of health behaviours and protective factors by country for use in the evaluation of school health and youth health promotion.”

Review the Global School-aBased Health Survey from Mongolia (see attachment), and use the other attachments below to discuss the findings, including discussing where the results support and digress from the literature.