Health Education Memo

I am a mother of three children as well as being a student. I have been appalled at the poor quality and lack of funding of physical education in the schools as well as the lack of nutritious school lunches. I plan on advocating for healthier lunches and getting fast food and junk food companies out of the schools. It will also be a priority to make sure that physical education and “stay active” programs have proper funding. Educating teachers as well as students about health is extremely important to me because if the teachers

In this unit I am going to explain three different approaches to promoting Health Education the three approaches I am going to explain are Mass Media, Community development and Two way Communication.

Both Healthy Alaskans 2020 and Healthy People 2020 have similar goals: increase the number of people who exercise everyday or weak. The starting point, the first action, is always educating the public or school so that people will understand that exercise is something that will prevent obesity and will greatly improve people’s health, which could also affect the length of a person’s lifespan. Along the starting point, assistance from other organizations and programs are needed in order to carry out the action. Moreover, depending on who the audience is, there will be different ways of educating them. For example, a way to teach students would be to have presenters and more exciting activities that will make students want to participate. Another example is to provide easy access to the public so that more and more people will consider exercising. Small events such as sports competitions will also entice the people. Though the goals are the same, the strategies and plans on how the goal is met

A public health issue that my South El Monte neighborhood faces is diabetes can potentially affect everyone including high school students. One factor contributing to diabetes is that my high school only requires two years of P.E. Once the P.E requirement is fulfilled students will not want to exercise regular. Another factor is club organization and student’s store sell unhealthy snacks to students such as gummy worms, pizza, and soda. Students purchase the snacks because they’re hungry and there is no other ways to obtain healthy food for a low price. The reason, students lack transportation to go buy healthy food afterschool.

ways in which to encourage, educate, and motivate students to adopting a healthy lifestyle and

According to the Health Education Content Standards for California Public Schools, in third grade students will learn about three overlying topics(Health, 2009). These three topics are (1) Growth and Development, (2) Mental, Social, and Emotional Health, and (3) Personal and Community Health. Within each of these major topics are different standards that should be taught throughout the year. My research focuses in on the third grade Mental, Social, and Emotional Health standard 7.1 M: Practicing Health-Enhancing Behaviors. This standard states that students should be able to “Evaluate effective strategies to cope with fear, stress, anger, loss, and grief in oneself and others” (Health, 2009). I will be specifically focusing on emotional health for 3rd graders.

It's starts at home. We, as parents and other family members need to encourage healthy eating habits. We need to make time to play with our children and/or provide physical activities for them to take place in. This could be going out for a family bike ride or allowing a child to participate in after school sports and recreation.

It depends a lot on community leaders as to how much priority they give towards tobacco cessation programs for youths. Awareness of the issue in community is another major factor in success of a program. In some communities and cultures there is lack of public awareness of ill effects of tobacco smoking. Program has to be culturally relevant. The infrastructure has to be great for adolescent smoking interventions. Legislature is weak in controlling tobacco sales. Smoking taxes can be further increased to discourage smoking among youths. There is a lack of local capacity to implement the program in all schools. There is lack of cost data. Staff time in schools need to be considered. Adolescent’s family life and social structure needs to be considered. The reduced budgets of many state tobacco control programs make it difficult to maintain staff and infrastructure (LaPelle, Zapka, & Ockene, 2006). The planning begins by identifying who will use the program: who will adopt it, who will implement it, and who will be responsible for sustaining the program over time. A reassessment of the planning group is necessary to ensure representation of potential program adopters and implementers (Bartholomew et al., 2009. p.506). We’re not able to asses or collect data from the program participants.so the efficacy of the program was

These kids are all at risk for obesity and heart disease so it is very important for them to have healthful food choices. Sometimes it is hard because they are in school everyday and their parents are not there to make the decisions for them. The predisposing factor is that most of the parents are all over weight, and are teaching these bad habits to their children. I believe that it is extremely important to help the children. Putting up posters and handing out flyers that explain the risks of obesity and heart disease will benefit them greatly. Having these kids learn all about the bad things that can happen to them will guide them in the right direction when choosing which foods to eat. Also, they will be able to learn and take this knowledge home with them to their parents as well. They will be more likely to avoid the wrong foods if they have the right knowledge about what it can do to their bodies. As for enabling the kids to make the right choices, we can do many different things, but I think our best option would be to change the meal plan in the cafeteria. If we get rid of most of the high fats/sugar foods it will help them in the long

One issue that is currently causing a big debate in my school district is health education. Just this year, the school district has approved that sex education must be taught in all schools and is not optional. Many parents thought they would be able to decline the sex education classes; however, the classes were included in the curriculum of health education. As a result, every student must take all of the sex education classes because they are listed within the health education curriculum. In addition, the school board has also voted and approved that students 7th grade and above will also be educated on gender identity and transgender issues (Shapiro, 2015).

From the time I started middle school, I have had a health and wellness education class each year throughout school. My first health class started in seventh grade and that is around the time I started to learn about the importance of health and wellness. As a kid, my diet was not what I would consider healthy. There were few fruits and vegetables outside of school lunches. I played three sports all of my life so I was an active person getting the important benefits of exercise. However, fast food was often a quick solution to eating after sport practice. Once I started to learn about healthy options in health class I was able to make conscious decisions on eating healthy. Health and physical education classes in high school started to explain why nutrition and exercise were important. Furthermore, I attended a private school that offered religion classes and I attended church weekly. Both of these influenced my spiritual wellness positively. After high school, I decided I wanted to study kinesiology and health promotion in college to learn more.

Develop a curriculum similar to Eat Healthy, Stay Active! to engage medical students to educate low-income families in childhood obesity prevention and treatment. Medical educators can use similar approach to Eat Healthy, Stay Active! to involve students in community and introduce them to the resources available in their community.

To sell oneself as a health educator, I must become the solution. Individuals believe that we can prepare and overcome obstacles in the health profession. Allowing others to know I am a health educator I must sell myself as one who not only knows the knowledge, but am able to present it and teach it to others.

The purpose of this memo is to obtain budgeting approval for the 2016 Wellness Fair and healthy initiatives for Cardinal Bank HQ and George Mason Mortgage on November 2, 2016 and November 10, 2016.

Community education programs could be taught throughout the community to educate them on making healthy food choices and the benefits to their health. The revenue from the taxation on sugary products can also be used to subsidize the cost of fruits and vegetables in poor neighborhoods. Lastly, programs can be created in schools to begin to educate children from a young age on healthy