Children's Health, Safety and Well-Being

The importance of child's health, safety, and happiness is reflected in the core values ​​of the American Instructor Association. Today, one in five children suffer from mental illness or live in a food insecure home. Poor children are confronted with greater health risks and limited access to appropriate care. Recognizing the growing health challenge and its impact on the success of the school, the AFT Health and Safety and Welfare Department has created a new program focused on the health of the child.

Since AFT members and leaders are the frontline staff who teach and take care of our students, we want to hear their opinions as they shape our course. According to our findings, the three major health priorities for children are mental health, equitable access to health care and food security.

Below you can read the details about how these problems and other health problems affect learning and find strategies for students to succeed at school and so on.

Children's health includes physical and mental health, and social well-being. Keeping children healthy means providing healthy food for children, making them sleep and exercise adequately, and keeping them safe. Children in one area of ​​the world are often malnourished and malnutrition is often associated with other diseases such as diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria. According to UNICEF, child protection refers to prevention against violence, exploitation and child abuse, including harmful traditional acts such as commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking in persons, child labor, and female genital excision and child marriage Correspondence ". The Convention on the Rights of the Child Protects Children's Basic Rights

The importance of child's health, safety, and happiness is reflected in the core values ​​of the American Instructor Association. Today, one in five children suffer from mental illness or live in a food insecure home. Poor children are confronted with greater health risks and limited access to appropriate care. Recognizing the growing health challenge and its impact on the success of the school, the AFT Health and Safety and Welfare Department has created a new program focused on the health of the child.

Because foodborne illness can affect people's health and happiness, food safety is important for public health. Dangerous foods can cause a vicious circle of illnesses and malnutrition that adversely affect infants, young children, the elderly and patients in particular. Food poisoning places a burden on the health care system, which adversely affects the national economy, tourism and trade, hindering socio-economic development. When food enters our cupboard through the farm, ensuring food safety requires a multi-sector collaboration. This method must be preventive - to improve food safety and quality by performing good agricultural practices with only defined amounts of pesticide or veterinary medicine. In order to ensure food safety, proper storage, transportation, retailing and catering practices are equally important.