Principles
of health education
Health
education for women and girls
Health
education in the curriculum
Health
education programme planning and implementation
CONTENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION
Widely addressed topics in health education include:
- personal growth, care and development
- nutrition and fitness
- effective relationships
- safety
- substance abuse
- common diseases
- sex education
- stress and mental health
- health policies and services
- environmental health
Specific health problems which should be addressed in the curriculum if they occur in the community include:
- violence and injury
- reproductive health and child care
- HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases
- nutrition
- unsafe/inadequate sanitation and water
- immunisation
- alcohol and tobacco
- oral health
- helminthic (worm) infections
- malaria
Last
update:
Janvier, 2000.
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