Is your secondary school participating in the Corona Health Monitor for Youth 2021?

Published Apr 21, 2021

The coronavirus has dominated our society for more than a year now. This has also had far-reaching consequences for young people. Together with GGD GHOR Netherlands and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), the municipal public health services will map the impact of coronavirus on young people’s health and give young people’s well-being a boost in the (post-)coronavirus era.

Is your secondary school participating in the Corona Health Monitor for Youth 2021?

That is why an additional measurement of the Health Monitor for Youth will take place from September through November 2021 (normally conducted every four years). In the near future, the municipal public health services in the Netherlands will approach all secondary schools to participate in this study. Your school is taking part too, isn’t it? Because improving young people’s health is what we do it for!

Andre Rouvoet, chair of GGD GHOR Netherlands and former Minister for Youth and Family and Education, Culture and Science: “I would like to call on all secondary schools to participate in this important study. Young people are the future, and targeted health policy based on their health status is invaluable, especially during and after this coronavirus crisis!”

Would you like more information about (participating in) the Health Monitor for Youth 2021? You can read it in this flyer.

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