The document contains summaries of four articles about student health: 1) The CDC article states that health issues like hunger negatively impact student performance and can lead to risky behaviors. Many schools lack strong health programs. 2) 25% of students have untreated mental health conditions and few receive college support. Deadlines and workloads commonly cause stress. 3) Research shows students benefit academically from later school start times due to natural sleep cycles. Earlier times lead to grogginess and poorer focus. 4) An article on obesity in UK students explores if it is an issue. Students need guidance on healthy eating, as cheap unhealthy options are common. Schools should promote exercise and healthy food.

1. Health and Body Image Topic
Research
Níamh Reilly

2. CDC
There is evidence from the CDC that the issues young people face
about their health are effecting their school performance. The article
states that health related factors, for example hunger can result in
health risking behaviours like early sexual initiation, violence, and
physical inactivity are consistently linked to poor grades and test
scores and lower educational attainment. It says that many schools do
not have good health programs and without good standard health
problems students and young people will grow up passing unhealthy
habits on to their children.
Schools and colleges pay a critical role in how young people, and
students evaluate their own and others health. We could include
interviews from principles, health experts and students in our
documentary to see the differing opinions. Especially health experts
could give our target audience tips on how to be more healthy and
such.
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/health_and_academics/

3. Students and Mental Health
This site states that 25% of students have mental health conditions
that go untreated and very few get support from colleges and
universities. The majority of these students find deadlines, teachers
and work load to cause them stress and aggravate any problems them
already have. Of those who do experience mental health
problems, 64% do not use any formal services for advice and support.
This is an increasing problem as young people are putting their health
at risk and suffering but not getting the right information and help
about it. This is an issue in todays society.
We could talk about this in our documentary and specifically students
eating habits whether they are likely to binge eat from stress or not
eat because of stress. We could look at what facilitates students have
when they are having problems and how accessible they are.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/may/20/students-stay-silent-about-mental-health-problems

4. School starting times affecting
students health?
This piece of research shows that students benefit from
later start times and later finishes because as we are
growing we have different sleep cycles and patterns. At
the time students start school their bodies are still in
their biological sleep mode which arises the question is
this harming our students? This doesn’t benefit our
students as they are more and more groggy and learn less
because they cannot focus properly in class, this could
then lead to health issues as they get stressed after falling
behind with work and maybe even stay up later getting a
lot less sleep than required.
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/research/highlights/Sleep/

5. Obesity in UK students
With obesity running rife in students in the UK, this
article explores whether or not it is a issue or not. This
shows that we are not giving our students good advice on
how to eat healthy we are giving them cheap fatty
alternatives. It states that students are adults and can
make their own decisions which is partly true but
everyone needs guidance especially new students,
students need role models. It also gives examples on how
to promote healthy living to students stating they should
set up gyms and heave healthy food available. We could
talk about this in our documentary and how the school
districts treat students and maybe talk to a principle.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/dec/15/obesity-student-health