Health Management: Designing and Explaining the New Health Model in Schools

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to explain and elaborate a model for the competence of school principals as the health leaders. In this paper, we focused on the role of school principals in managing a healthy school. Methods: The research method is a descriptive-cross sectional type combination. In the qualitative section, thematic analysis was used and in the quantitative part a confirmatory factor analysis was used. The statistical community of the qualitative section includes all valid scientific databases in the period 2000 - 2018 in the field of school health management. In the quantitative part, the statistical society includes 823 school principals of Kermanshah province. One hundred and twenty randomly participated in this research. Results: In the qualitative section for the health management, four components of physical health, mental health, happiness and physical safety, as well as eleven sub-components were validated. Consequently, the conceptual model was extracted and the researcher-made questionnaire of health management had high validity and reliability. Conclusions: According to the results of confirmatory factor analysis, the instrument has a good fit. Also, with the meaningfulness of the paths, the appropriateness of the structural model of the research was determined.