Evidence shows that school-based systems mandating physical education and promoting healthy lifestyles—including organised sports, access to facilities, hygiene education, basic medical support, and equal participation for girls and boys—can generate lasting benefits for population health. By embedding health promotion into education, students develop lifelong healthy habits for life, while risky behaviours such as smoking and excessive alcohol consumption are reduced. Education thus acts as a long-term public health tool.
After a three-month break, World of Labour is restarting its publication at its new institutional home, the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). The restart opens with its first opinion piece. This series examines contemporary questions in labour markets and employment policy, as well as the relationship between between work and social well-being.
https://wol.iza.org/opinions/what-todays-schools-can-learn-from-communist-education






