Abstract
Background: Investing in adolescent health is one of the most important interventions in the health system. Accordingly, health-promoting schools organize their policies, methods, infrastructures, and activities towards protecting and promoting the health and well-being of the students, teachers, directors, authorities and society as a whole. 
Objective: To study the health policies of schools in the southeast of Iran.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on all governmental high schools (113 schools) which were enrolled by census sampling method in January 2017, in Zahedan, in the southeast of Iran. The study tool was a validated questionnaire about the “School Health Policies and Programs” that was completed by the principals or staff of the schools. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 15, using descriptive statistic and linear regression test. 
Results: About one-third of the schools did not have a health educator. Some policies, including annual medical examinations, having a healthy breakfast at school, healthy food supply at lower prices in school buffets, and counseling the students with special conditions in schools were not implemented. The most inter-sectoral cooperation was among the health centers (47.8%). The mean score of health policy implementation in schools was 89.70±11.51. Linear regression analysis demonstrated a significant relationship between type of school (p<0.05) and number of students in schools as well as attendance of a health educator in schools (p<0.001) with health policies
Conclusions: Despite the implementation of the program in Iran in recent years, there are no clear and identical policies in the schools. Therefore, there is need to establish health policy committees in schools from among staff, teachers, parents, and students. In addition, success of the program requires inter-sectoral collaboration, supporting environmental health and improvement of parents' relationships with the school.

 

 
Keywords: Health policy, High school, Iran, country

 

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