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Sep 18, 2023 · Health education standards outline what students should know and be able to do by the end of specified grades, serving as a valuable tool for schools in selecting, designing, or revising curricula. 1. Multiple professional organizations working in health education have recent or current efforts to update standards for health education.
- Characteristics of an Effective Curriculum
Comprehensive School Health Education. In: Marx E, Wooley S,...
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- Characteristics of an Effective Curriculum
This section discusses two broad phases of public health education in America.11Material in the History section of this chapter is abstracted from the commissioned paper prepared for the committee by Elizabeth Fee, Ph.D. The paper appears in its entirety in Appendix D. The first phase, during which independent schools of public health were first created, occurred between roughly 1914 and 1939 ...
- Kristine Gebbie, Linda Rosenstock, Lyla M. Hernandez
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- Health education is effective at addressing adolescent behaviors and experiences
- Health Education Curriculum and Standards
- Sexual health is a critical component of health education
- Educator and Staff Professional Development and Training
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CDC’s What Works In Schools Program improves the health and well-being of middle and high school students by:
•Improving health education,
•Connecting young people to the health services they need, and
•Making school environments safer and more supportive.
Health education is part of the primary mission of schools. It provides young people with the knowledge and skills they need to become successful learners and healthy adults.1
Health education is a fundamental part of an overall school health program and helps youth acquire functional health knowledge, strengthens attitudes and beliefs, and builds skills needed to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors throughout their lives.1
See CDC’s Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum to learn more about research on effective curricula in school health education.
Health Education Standards
Health education standards are designed to establish, promote, and support health-enhancing behaviors for students in all grade levels.1 These learning standards have been updated or are currently being revised by multiple professional organizations in school health. Versions of these standards are available here and here.
National Sex Education Standards
The National Sex Education Standards outline foundational knowledge and skills students need to navigate sexual development and grow into sexually healthy adults. The standards are designed to help schools focus on what is most essential for students to learn by the end of a grade level or grade span and can be used to create lessons and curricula with aligned learning objectives.18
Quality health education uses qualified teachers, connects students to health services, engages parents and community partners, and fosters positive relationships between adolescents and adults who are important to them.19-21 Successful in-service professional development programs can improve both the amount of time teachers spend on health topics and their confidence to provide health education.22-23
You can find professional development tool and resources here:
•Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). This tool helps school and community leaders conduct clear, complete, and consistent analyses of health education curricula across a wide variety of topics (e.g., nutrition, tobacco, mental/emotional health).
•HECAT Webinars. A series of six videos introducing HECAT and featured health topic modules.
•HECAT Online. A free, interactive tool that allows you to work collaboratively in teams to complete projects related to curriculum analyses, comparing strengths and weaknesses of multiple curricula, and developing a scope and sequence (S&S) for health education.
•HECAT Online Instructional Guides. A series of four guides detailing how to use HECAT Online for curriculum analyses or scope and sequence development.
1.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool, 2021, Atlanta: CDC; 2021.
2.Eisen M, Pallitto C, Bradner C, Bolshun N. Teen Risk-Taking: Promising Prevention Programs and Approaches. Washington, DC: Urban Institute; 2000.
3.Lohrmann DK, Wooley SF. Comprehensive School Health Education. In: Marx E, Wooley S, Northrop D, editors. Health Is Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs. New York: Teachers College Press; 1998:43–45.
4.Nation M, Crusto C, Wandersman A, Kumpfer KL, Seybolt D, Morrissey-Kane, E, Davino K. What works: principles of effective prevention programs. American Psychologist 2003;58(6/7):449–456.
5.Coyle, K., Anderson, P., Laris, B. A., Barrett, M., Unti, T., & Baumler, E. (2021). A group randomized trial evaluating high school FLASH, a comprehensive sexual health curriculum. Journal of Adolescent Health, 68(4), 686-695.
6.Goldfarb, E. S., & Lieberman, L. D. (2021). Three decades of research: The case for comprehensive sex education. Journal of Adolescent Health, 68(1), 13-27.
Jul 20, 2020 · The recommendations addressed issues such as developing and adopting standardized measures of health literacy in children and including them in state accountability systems; changing policies, practices, and systems for quality school health education (e.g., establishing Director of School Health Education positions in all state and territory education agencies tasked with championing health ...
- M. Elaine Auld, Marin P. Allen, Cicily Hampton, J. Henry Montes, Cherylee Sherry, Angela D. Mickalid...
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Schools have been the focus of numerous and varied efforts to promote and secure the health of American children and young people since the colonial era. In its interim statement, the committee reviewed some of the historical aspects of school health programming to provide a context for its definition of a comprehensive school health program (CSHP) and a background for identifying issues to be ...
- Diane Allensworth, Elaine Lawson, Lois Nicholson, James Wyche
- 1997
- 1997
Jun 12, 2011 · It was against a background of no formal career path for public health officers that, in 1915, the seminal Welch-Rose Report1 outlined a system of public health education for the United States. The first schools of public health soon followed, but growth was slow, with only 12 schools by 1960. With organization and growing numbers, accreditation became an expectation. As the mission of public ...
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Apr 2, 2024 · According to the World Bank, hygiene promotion is among the most cost-effective health actions to reduce disease. As of 2022, 2 billion people lack basic hygiene services (handwashing facilities with soap and water) in their homes, and 1.3 billion people had handwashing facilities that lacked water or soap.
