- To promote health equality by targeting the discrepancy in lower SES and health outcomes
- To empower young people to make healthy decisions
- Education about diet, exercise and balance
- To help them to develop skills to enable them to be healthy
- To promote positive mental health and wellbeing
- To promote healthy social relationships
- To provide the opportunity for students to develop as teachers
- To promote doctors and health care professionals as positive role models to contribute to widening participation
