Role of Ayurveda in School Health

Ayurveda is believed to be the oldest medical science of human civilization. Some of the contemporary concepts of today can be understood by the same age old principles and practices of Ayurveda. School health as a discipline is mainly seen as a part of or a similar stream of community medicine. However, the classical text of Ayurveda also describe certain principles of public health in its own parlances. Though the classical texts of Ayurveda describes many principles such as immunity, nutrition etc. School health is a new approach to health care which integrates at the community level of all factors requires for improving health status of population while it integrates promotive, preventing and curative services. The present document will focus on the concept of school health in brief with respect to Ayurveda.