[Hygiene--a task of condition and behaviour prevention in school].

Educational institutions are affected by the issue of hygiene in two ways. On the one hand, there is the issue of hygienically acceptable conditions that children and young people live in daily almost throughout the year and in which they have to work or learn. They must be protected from the transmission of contagious and infectious diseases and from potentially morbid biological, physical and chemical effects--insofar as this is possible under general school conditions (infection hygiene and environmental hygiene as part of condition prevention/health protection in schools). On the other hand, school children need to be motivated and enabled by a specific learning programme to help them follow basic hygiene rules as an important element of health promotion by personal health maintenance in and outside school and beyond school hours (hygiene as a task of behaviour prevention/health education in schools). Learning goal: prevention competence. As self-evident as this perception of hygiene and school may be, many details prove difficult to implement, including financing and requirements for teachers who are to take part.