Public Health

Preventing high school dropout is a necessary step to ensure educational success, but is also a public health priority, as students who complete high school are more likely to live happy and healthy lives. Following are some relevant resources.

• Healthier Students are Better Learners: A Missing Link in School Reforms to Close the Achievement Gap

• Linking Improvements in Health-Related Quality of Life to Reductions in Medicaid Costs Among Students Who Use School-Based Health Centers
• Toward a Healthy High Schools Movement: Strategies for Mobilizing Public Health for Educational Reform
• Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue

Public Health Organizations and Other Related Resources:

• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC)
• Center for Disease Control’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH)
• American School Health Association
• The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
• Coalition for Community Schools
• Prevention Institute
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO)
• Public Health Foundation (PHF)