However, scientific evidence about behaviour change and the development of young people’s bodies and their capacity for processing information has changed the ways many in the health sector think and act about school health. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, drafted in 1986, set out a wider concept of health about school health promotion and offered five key planks of action for promoting health. This document played a significant role in influencing how the health sector thinks. The very widely used and accepted framework of the Health Promoting School (HPS) is an outcome of this. The HPS has six areas.
