HARMONIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN PROMOTING CHILDREN’S HEALTH
Abstract
The promotion of children’s health within educational systems represents a growing interdisciplinary challenge driven by increasing environmental risks, sedentary learning practices, and psychosocial stressors. While previous studies have examined educational environments and environmental determinants separately, limited attention has been paid to their systemic integration as a unified
health-promoting mechanism within formal education.
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