eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2022-02-27 10 2 103 110 10.12691/education-10-2-5 EDUCATION20221025 article Sabina Kumar 1 Jamie Shah 1 Pranav Barve 1 Sumanta Chaudhuri sxk730@case.edu 1 Hemet Global Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University The World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a self-administered global school-based student health survey (GSHS) in 2007 to students attending schools under the Indian Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). The survey collected data on various health behaviors; however, this sample of data was missing a large proportion of Indian children attending government schools (GS). The objective of this study is to compare health behaviors and protective factors between CBSE and GS students in India. Children attending nine randomly selected GS in Bangalore, India were orally surveyed using questions from the GSHS. While dietary and hygiene factors are compromised for students in GS, they appear to engage in healthy social relationships more often than CBSE students. These dissimilarities between GS and CBSE schools imply that the gap in health factors between the two school systems remain a complex problem and that school-type specific solutions are required to address these issues. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/10/2/5/education-10-2-5.pdf world health organization central board of secondary education interpersonal relations malnutrition hand hygiene