Plan for modern health education in schools

The reform provides for the development and adoption of a National Plan for Health Education in the Bulgarian Schools until 2027.

It was adopted in 2023 and specifies measures to foster health education in schools, covering topics such as reproductive health, nutrition and harmful consumption of alcohol and other psychoactive substances.

The Plan identifies and provides an in-depth analysis on the main risk factors for preventable health diseases: smoking, alcohol consumption, psychoactive substance abuse, unhealthy eating habits and poor nutrition, low sexual and reproductive health awareness, and poor physical activity.

The Plan recognizes that behaviors regarding these topics usually forms at a very young age.

The idea behind the Plan for Modern Health Education in Schools is to lay down the groundwork to create unified resources for better health education starting at a very young age, in order to make students more aware of their health, and thus healthier.

The core idea behind it is that the best form of disease prevention is to form early habits among children and youth by providing them with equal, blanket resources to make better and safer decision about their health, and thus grow up to be healthy adults.