Health-oriented prescriptions for the development of school culture

School-centered health programs have always been considered by education system as a factor in promoting students’ health and building effective community culture. The purpose of this study was to obtain health-oriented prescriptions for stakeholders that can be effective in developing school culture.

The study was performed by analytical review method with document analysis, content analysis and library study. Operational plans consisting of 3 copies of the documents communicated by the Ministry of Education to schools in line with the transformation document in the academic year of 1397-1397. Furthermore, applied research on the effectiveness of these plans in the school organizational culture was used in the last 4 decades. By data reduction method, extractive categories, similarity characteristics and commonalities of the two research variables were calculated with a group of experts’ opinion and some professors.

From the content analysis, 30 features of health-oriented programs were extracted, which were adapted to the two models of organizational culture of school and the axes of Shine model. The existence of commonality was determined in all axes.

The results showed that the commonalities of school programs promoting health and organizational culture are tied to the common roots of beliefs and values that create synergistic effects in the school. Therefore, health teachings in children and adolescents become behaviors, attitudes and Healthy habits in adulthood and they are transferred to future generations. Therefore, considering the role of culture transfer through school, the formation of health-oriented programs is important to create habits and positive thinking in schools.