This descriptive quantitative research design evaluated and determined the implementation of School Health and Nutrition Program of the 3 divisions of Surigao del Sur Province namely Surigao del Sur,Tandag City, and Bislig City for the 3 consecutive School Years : 2015-2016,2016-2017, and 2017-2018.
Findings revealed that in the profile of the school respondents, most of the teachers were not Masteral and Doctoral Degree holders, while all school nurses are baccalaureate graduates with no Masteral or Doctoral degee units. Thirty nine percent (39 %) of the school heads are doctoral degree holder, 22% are masteral holder, and 39 % were not masters or doctors degree holder. However, regardless of the educational attainment they were able to implement school health and nutrition program in every respective school.
On the level of implementation of the school health and nutrition Program, findings revealed that all core component namely health and nutrition education, health and nutrition services, healthful school living and school-community coordination for health and nutrition are Well Implemented .
Likewise, there is no significant relationship between the profile of the school to the level of implementation of school health and nutrition program among the three (3) divisions in Surigao del Sur, Bislig City and Tandag City division respectively.
Moreover, lack of health personnel leads the problems encountered in the implementation of the school health and nutrition program with the adjectival description of Serious (S). However, based on the over-all result, the problems encountered are Slightly Serious.