ED2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Childhood Obesity, First Aid, Peer Pressure
HEALTH EDUCATION TEST REVISION SHEET
Importance of Teaching Health Education
- Life skills we need – early implementation
- Students develop strategies to cope with the health
issues in today’s society
- Good patterns of behaviour determine long term
outcomes
The Traditional Health Promoting Schools Model –
why is the triangular relationship important?
- This model takes into account the physical, social
and emotional needs of all members of the school
- Promote health within the curriculum, school
partnerships and the school environment
Multi-factorial Approach - What is it and why would you use it?
- Same message in every environment
- School, community, and home
- Interventions need to be intensive and implemented over long
periods of time
- Messages promoted In schools must reflect the expectations in the
broader school environment and community
How do the Principles of Best Practice in Drug Education
impact on Health Education?
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Harm Minimisation and drug education approaches
- Aims to address alcohol and other drug issues by reducing the
harmful effects of alcohol and other drugs on individuals and
society
- Identifies that drug use (both legal and illegal) is a part of society
- Reduced harm caused by drugs to the individuals, families and
communities
- Control the supply, reduce the demand, prevent problems,
provide support
PMI for the following teaching strategies:
Group Work
Decision Making
Graffiti
Unfinished Sentences
Values Clarification
Child Obesity – What has the current trend been
and why?
- Increasing at an annual rate of 1%
- Type 2 diabetes is being increasingly detected
in children
- Causes: Lack of physical activity and nutrition
What is the Social Inoculation Theory? + SHARHP
- Phase 1 – Target students prior to the time when a
high proportion of students started drinking
- Phase 2 – Reinforces knowledge and skills during the
time when most students are experimenting with
alcohol – information is immediately relevant
- Phase 3 – Implemented when alcohol use in later
teenage years rises
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Document Summary
Life skills we need early implementation. Students develop strategies to cope with the health issues in today"s society. Good patterns of behaviour determine long term outcomes. This model takes into account the physical, social and emotional needs of all members of the school. Promote health within the curriculum, school partnerships and the school environment. How do the principles of best practice in drug education. Interventions need to be intensive and implemented over long periods of time. Aims to address alcohol and other drug issues by reducing the. Group work harmful effects of alcohol and other drugs on individuals and society. Identifies that drug use (both legal and illegal) is a part of society. Reduced harm caused by drugs to the individuals, families and communities. Control the supply, reduce the demand, prevent problems, provide support. Increasing at an annual rate of 1% Type 2 diabetes is being increasingly detected in children. Causes: lack of physical activity and nutrition.
