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Preface

Message from The Nippon Foundation

This school health textbook, “School Health for All - A Step to a Better World,” is the first full-fledged

I am delighted at the completion of the textbook for school health teachers, [School Health for All – A

school health textbook to be published for teacher education in Cambodia, corresponding to thestep to a better world].

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and Tokyo
Gakugei University. This textbook has been developed under the financial support as a generous grant

The outbreak of Covid-19 spread throughout the world in no time and our daily lives have changed

from the Nippon Foundation to enable student teachers to teach school health classes in response to thedrastically from what we knew since before the outbreak. Infection prevention methods such as obligatory

decision of the Royal Government of Cambodia to introduce school health education to primary andmasks, thorough washing of hands, alcohol disinfection, and maintaining distance from one anotherlower secondary schools under the School Health Policy. The school health textbook consists of an

have been recommended. On the other hand, there were quite a number of cases of infection arising fromintroduction and 16 chapters with selected topics necessary for learning the fundamentals of schoola lack of awareness of the importance of infection prevention measures.

health education. Furthermore, these chapters are comprehensive and can contribute to Cambodia'sefforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The textbook was developed by school health experts from Tokyo Gakugei University (representative)

Today, with diverse information surrounding us related Covid-19 it is even more important forindividuals to further pursue and be equipped with correct health and hygiene knowledge.

and Ibaraki University, Jumonji University, Saitama University, and Yokohama National University. The
experts worked in close collaboration to complete a draft in Japanese, which was then translated into

This textbook [School Health for All- A step to a better world] comes with important information

English. The Khmer version of the textbook was later developed with the great support of lecturers fromnecessary for leading a healthy life. It is my hope that this textbook will be useful to all the young futureboth Teacher Education Colleges in Phnom Penh and Battambang, with regard to the accurate use ofschool health teachers in gaining thorough knowledge of correct health and hygiene and that they will,

Khmer terminology. The school health textbook in Khmer was finalized after a review by the Schoolin turn, pass on that knowledge to the younger generation.

Health Department of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Kingdom of Cambodia. TokyoGakugei University Cambodia Office coordinated the Khmer translation, illustration creation, and layout
work of the textbook.

The Nippon Foundation has implemented a number of teacher training programs since 2004 torebuild the Cambodian education infrastructure, which was devastated by the catastrophic civil war thatThe English edition of the school health textbook was created in parallel with the Khmer edition.

continued for about 20 years. We have great expectations that this school health project will also

It is strongly hoped that this textbook can be used to contribute to the enhancement of student

contribute to produce excellent school health teachers. I would like to express my gratitude to theteachers’ capacities in the field of health education in the Cambodian teacher education colleges. As aCambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Phnom Penh Teachers’ Training College,result, they will be able to effectively teach school health subjects when they become teachers upon

Battambang Teachers’ Training College, Tokyo Gakugei University and members of Social Compass,graduation. This will have a positive impact on school students, resulting in healthy human resources forand the NGO Education Support Center Kizuna.

Cambodia.

Yohei Sasakawa
Takashi Asakura

Chairman, The Nippon Foundation

Representative, Ph.D.,Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Gakugei UniversitySam Chanphirun
Ph.D, Deputy Director, Phnom Penh Teacher Education Collage

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