surat a group of citybased psychiatrists will shortly introduce intervention programmes in ten schools of the city five run by the municipality and five run privately for ensuring a healthy physical and sociopsycho environment for students these programmes will be part of the worldwide drive of the world health organisation who being initiated on monday to mark world health dayaccording to psychiatrist dr ritambhara mehta of the government medical college a combined intervention aiming both for healthy physical and psychosocial environment for school children needs to be stressed on in isolation both the factors would not be sufficient for the all round growth of a childif intervention is required for safe drinking water clean air proper sanitation facilities appropriate safety measures at physical level then emotional security peer pressure adequate sex education at a later stage and a safeguard mechanism from deteriorating external ambience due to increasing levels of violence are also needed to be given due weightage she stressedthe planned intervention would be at three levels home school and community at large said psychiatrist kamlesh dave the focus of intervention at the domestic level should be oriented towards proper parenting skills whereas at the school level the aim should be enhancement of teaching skills which should address the need of students dave saidat the community level the focus should be at creating awareness for developing lifeskill traits for handling emotional requirements which are a result of ones role in the social circle peer pressure for drug abuse and sexual behaviour and other associated things dave emphasisedthe risk factor for growing children in present times have been identified under three categories as basic risks which include things like unsafe drinking water poor sanitation facilities air pollution unhygienic food inadequate waste disposal system modern risks like unsafe use of dangerous chemicals like pesticides noise pollution unsafe use of chemicals in toys ozone depletion contamination due to organic pollutants and other risks like child abuse violence due to war and other crimes at several social levels said davethe need today is to initiate intervention at home school and community levels for proper assessment of the needs which are linked to the growth of a child and for this problems related not only to physical environment but also at the psychosocial level should be addressed through systematised intervention said psychiatrist dr mukul choksi