Health Education in Schools

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.

First of all, evidences suggest that the health promoting school program can effective reduce several types of risk behaviors and solve health related issue via implement a diversity of health education strategies (Stewart-Brown, 2006). In addition, the approach can improve the health knowledge, attitude and behavior of individuals and bring positive effects to education and health outcome (Moon et al., 1999).

Throughout this coursework I will be writing about different life-stages of my chosen celebrity. My chosen celebrity is Michael Jackson. I will start with physical development and go through intellectual, emotional and social developments.

The purpose of health education is to positively persuade the health behavior of individuals and committees as well as living and working conditions that influence their health. Health education is the development of individual group, community, and systemic strategies to improve health knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behavior. Health education is a social science that draws from the biological, environmental, physical, and mental sciences to promote health and prevent disease disability and premature death through education driven voluntary behavior change activities.

While performing some research on the high school students at Proviso East, I found that most of them come from a low income family backgrounds with majority of the African American population. I learned more about their lifestyle and the health care services available in their community. As the majority of the ethnically diverse parents in the community have lots of children and work in entry level service jobs, the students have less access to hygiene knowledge. According to which I think they lack awareness about healthy eating, drinking habits, oral health, and other basic health education.

According to the (WHO, 2016) The Ottawa Charter aims to ‘reduce differences in current health status and ensure equal opportunities and resources to enable all people to achieve their fullest health potential.’ The Ottawa charter provides the framework to identify what can be done at a; local community level, state level, national government level and international organisation level (WHO, 2016). In this report the Ottawa charter will be used to demonstrate what action areas that can be addressed to improve the nutrition, health and well-being of students at Centenary Heights State High School (CHSHS). The aim of this report is the focus of strengthening and developing each individual student’s personal skills, to help strengthen students’ nutrition, health and wellbeing. According to Better Health Victoria, developing personal of school students allows ‘people to learn (throughout life) how to prepare themselves for all of its stages and to cope with chronic illness and injuries is essential. This has to be facilitated in school, home, work and community settings.’

Health education provides its population with the necessary knowledge and tools to help increase overall health, shape attitudes, and ultimately hopes to change behavior (WHO, n.d.). Health education is advocating, promoting, teaching, and setting an example of well-being for all human beings regardless of ethnicity, social economic status, race, and

A large problem of childhood poverty is malnutrition. Since these children are growing up in poverty, many of the parents have a hard time supplying food for their kids. Surprisingly, there

A healthy lifestyle is a choice each individual must make for their self, choices that health educators are required to inform their clients of. Health educators must know about the theories and models used in health education so they will properly be educated themselves in order to help their clients to a healthy lifestyle. Theories and models

While Health education and Health promotion have similar aims and objectives, they are both very different concepts. Health education is a tool used to help people develop skills and behaviors that will help them to be able to live healthier lifestyles. Health education helps to increase life expectancy by giving people knowledge on how to prevent certain illnesses and diseases and also helps to reinforce positive attitudes and behaviors towards health. Health promotion is a method use to spread awareness of the importance of health. Usually in the form of advertisements, health promotion aims to get people to try and get control over their health in order to improve it. Health promotion uses different mechanisms in order to promote and support

I believe that physical education and health give a unique opportunity to the students to contribute to the overall well-being and student’s development. As a teacher I believe that the most important things that I can teach my students is a love to be physically active because i believe that physical ability will affect every aspect of student’s life including their mental health, academic achievement, self-esteem, social competency and ability to function well in any environment. The purpose of physical education and health class is to provide the concepts of health and skill related fitness in order to create the student with continuous physically active that can promote the development of life long movers. Physical education and health

Health is man perceiving oneself at his or her optimal level of functioning. Health can be achieved even in a diseased state by assisting clients to achieve the highest perceived state of health as possible. Health is a direct result of environmental factors and health teaching and promotion. It is important to incorporate the teaching process and recognize the different domains of learning in order to achieve the most effective, positive behavioral changes. Since man is in constant interaction with his environment, and each client has different beliefs, cultures and values, health promotion and teaching are important for man to achieve his or her optimal level of functioning. This is

1A Before reading ahead in the text, briefly summarize your thoughts on the health of today’s children, and what you hope to learn as a result of your enrollment in this course.

Health is defined as a state in which human needs are met in an autonomic way, and is not limited to the absence of disease or disablement (V. Henderson). Optimal health is a lively, self-motivated equilibrium of physical, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and social well-being. The concept of health promotion delineates the method of empowering people to increase control over, and to advance their own overall health.

With immunization, a country’s growth can be boosted, as immunization makes economic sense. Though there are some challenges in being able to vaccinate all target children, UNICEF has made major initiatives and major progress.