School health education
RIS ID
57238
Abstract
In this review we assess the recent developments in research and practice pertaining to health education in schools. We begin by defining school health education within the broader framework of community health education and promotion. The shifting priorities, purposes, and assumptions of school health education are traced and attributed. They lead to a new generation of problems and methods that call for a concentration of research on ways to combine the classroom contributions of health education with the broader organizational, economic, and environmental supports that will predispose, enable, and reinforce behavior conducive to health.
Publication Details
Green, L. W. & Iverson, D. C. (1982). School health education. Annual Review of Public Health, 3 (May), 321-338.