Improving School Physical Education: Eight Health Economics Strategies for Health Promotion

Students and teachers can participate more peacefully and safely in school sports activities in a healthy environment and physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy. Providing such a healthy space in schools requires numerous infrastructural and conditional prerequisites, with ensuring economic resources for health being essential. Therefore, this article aims to identify practical health economics strategies for developing physical education in schools. Suitable practical health economics strategies may include integrating health impacts into economic evaluations, developing student insurance as a safety valve, distributive justice in health services, investment in school health infrastructure, encouraging health policies related to transportation, empowering teachers and school administrators in health economics, offering financial incentives to schools, and fostering cross-sector collaboration. These strategies can lead to improvements in health infrastructure, increased student participation in sports activities, and enhancement of the quality of physical education programs. Financial incentives include grants for implementing health programs, bonuses for schools that achieve health and sports participation targets, and subsidies for schools that invest in health infrastructure. In summary, this article suggests innovation in health economics and physical education in schools by identifying gaps in previous studies and proposing new approaches.