From the early days of the ENHPS, countries were provided with a set of criteria they could use to develop their national networks of health-promoting schools (Barnekow Rasmussen et al., 1999). These criteria proved to be a very useful starting-point for the development of national programmes, which would all adhere to a broad concept of health but also allow the inclusion of necessary national and regional specificities. Later on, at the First Conference of the ENHPS (1997a, b) in Greece, partici- pants built on these criteria to set out ten important focus areas in the Confer- ence resolution. This resolution was to be a tool for.
