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“Despite, or perhaps because of, its brevity (98 pages plus references) this is a very useful compendium of programmes proven to be effective. I commend it to all those who wish to move away from the individual case referral.” --Ewen Rennie in BPS Division of Educational & Clinical
Health Education
Health Education
Initial efforts at health education in the early 1900s provided children with basic information about communicable disease and the importance of basic medical care and attention. Health education has now evolved toward activities designed to modify health-related behavior (Allensworth, 1993). Moreover, the concept of health has expanded to include not only physical but mental, emotional, and social dimensions (Perry, 1984), so that virtually everything can be viewed in one way or another as falling under the purview of health education. One way to subdivide the broad field of health education is to consider the two major categories of preventable physical health problems of schoolchildren related to (a) injuries and physical violence and (b) emerging habits and lifestyles that affect health. This chapter ...
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