PhD
Indiana University---Bloomington
The responsibility of school health education is to provide the complete positive experience and the knowledge structure to the student, including the establishment of health education curriculum, the creation of school health environment and carrying out the appropriate school health education plan through principal, teacher, guardian and the broad cooperation which leads in the community.
The significance of school health education:
Health is one of the main factors which affect young students’ learning capability. So the government has the responsibility to provide the best study conditions. This goal can be achieved by school health education. The school health education program can systematically organize all the factors that promote young people’s health.
The significance of school health education is: Young students are in the life preparation time, health education work, may help them to accept systematic health education since childhood. It will be very helpful for young people to establish a healthy life style, strengthen the self-health care consciousness and ability, prevent common disease, frequently-occurring disease, and even adult sickness. School health education builds the good foundation for their life and the effect is lifelong.
The implementation scope of school health education:
School health education is not only limited to the health education curriculum but also through many kinds of health education in young people's daily study and the life such as food security, nutrition, smoking control, personal hygiene and so on.
The teaching of school health education:
Health education should be a part of the entire school education system.
1) The health education curriculum: young students may start their health habit since the baby time. But they usually obtain the systematic medicine and health knowledge in school. So the school health education curriculum should be the main way for students to obtain this kind of knowledge.
There is huge difference in receptivity and thinking mode among the young students of different ages. So the goal, content, teaching style and materials of health education curriculum should be accordant of the characteristics of different age sections. Because our work is to help student to be active learning not non-passive learning.
Healthy behavior instruction:
The goal of healthy behavior instruction is to help the students to have the basic healthcare knowledge and to command the basic skills of self-healthcare. Health behavior instruction helps students to develop a faith of health and medicine, correct judge and the appraisal ability and healthy behavior. Good behavior may affect not only the individual but also the family and the society.
There are two ways of healthy behavior instruction: Collective activity and individual consultation. Collective activity aims at the existing behavior question among students. Individual consultation helps each individual student who has special health behavior or medical care questions.
The school health service:
School health service is directly related to students’ health activities. It is also the essential part of the entire school health plan. The school health service mainly includes: medical examination, dental examination, immunity vaccination, infectious disease control, common disease prevention and the psychological consultation as well. The school should also provide the necessary services to the disabled students.
The school health environment:
School health environment stimulates and promotes the student to participate in the beneficial health activities, raises their health consciousness of the external environment, including interpersonal and material environment.
The interpersonal environment mainly includes the school interpersonal relationship between the teachers and students, schoolmate and the other personnel.
The material environment is related to the school constructions, the ground size, the drainage, the garbage disposal system and so on.
How to provide a harmonious and healthy environment to all the students should be considered by all the school health educators.
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