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What is a Comprehensive School Health Edcation
Program?
What are the eight (8) Components of a Comprehensive
School Health Program
What is National Health Education Program?
What is the importance of the National Health Program?

The SCHOOL HEALTH

PROGRAM

What is is a comprehensive
school health education
program?
A comprehensive school health
education program is an organized set
of policies, procedures and activities,
designed to protect and promote the
health, safety and well-beings of
students, teachers and staff.

What are the eight (8)

components of a
comprehensive school health
education program?
Health Education
School Health
Services
Safe and Healthful
school environment
Physical Education

Nutrition Services
Counseling,
psychological and
social services
Health promotion for
the staff
Parents and
community
involvement

1. Health Education
A planned sequential pre-school to high
school curriculum that addresses the
physical, mental and emotional dimensions of
health. It is designed to motivate and assist
students to maintain and improve their
health, reduce health-related risk behaviors,
and most of all prevent diseases. Its goals
are for children to develop and demonstrate
increasingly healthy-related knowledge,
attitude, skills and practices.

10 Health Areas in Health

Education
1. Mental and
Emotional Health
2. Family Living
3. Growth and
Development
4. Alcohol, Tobacco,
Drugs
5. Communicable and
Chronic Diseases

Nutrition
7. Personal Health
8. Safety Education
9. Consumer
Education
10. Environmental
Health
6.

2. SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES

Designed to appraise, protect, and promote the
health and well-being of students. Specifically, it is
designed to:
Ensure access and referral to primary health care
such as screening for vision, height, and weight
Foster appropriate use of primary health services
Prevent and control communicable diseases and
other health conditions;
Manage chronic diseases;
Provide emergency care for illnesses and injuries;
Provide education and counseling opportunities for
the maintenance, promotion and protection of
individual, family and community

2. SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES

Only qualified health and medical
professional, such as physicians, nurses,
dentists and other personnel from allied
professions could provide quality school
health services. They are known as
valuable members of School-Health
Team along with the health educators
and administrators.

3. SAFE AND HEALTHFUL

SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
Pertains to an environment that attends to the
physical and aesthetic surroundings and the
psychosocial climate and culture that maximize the
health and safety of every student, faculty and staff.
There are factors influencing in achieving a safe and
healthful school environment such as:
Physical environment
Infrastructure of the building itself
The area surrounding the building
Presence of any nearby biological or chemical
agents damaging to health
Physical condition such as lighting, noise,
temperature & ventilation

3. SAFE AND HEALTHFUL

SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT

Psychosocial environment
Interrelated physical, emotional and social
conditions that affect the well-being and
productivity of students and staff
Positive interpersonal relationships
Recognition of needs and support for
building self-esteem in sudents, teachers
and staff

4. PHYSICAL EDUCATION

A planned sequential curriculum that

provides cognitive content and learning
experiences in a variety of activities. It
includes basic movement skills, physical
fitness, rhythms, dance, games-individual
or team, gymnastics and aquatics

5. NUTRITION SERVICES
Provide students, faculty and staff
with nutritionally balanced, varied
and attractive meals and snacks in a
setting that promotes social
interaction and relaxation. All meals
and snacks should meet the
nutritional needs and health
conditions of most if not all
students.

6. COUNSELLING, PSYCHOSOCIAL
AND SOCIAL SEVICES
Provide both individual and group
assessments, interventions and
referrals which attend to th mental,
emotional and social health of
students, faclty and staff. Basically,
these services must only be given
by qualified and certified school
counsellors, psychologists and social
workers.

7. HEALTH PROMOTION FOR

STAFF
Includes health promotion programs
such as health assessments, health
education and health related fitness
activities that promote, preserve
and protect the health of all the
staff. These programs should
encourage and motivate school staff
to opt for healthful lifestyle, and
therefore e promoting health.

8. PARENTS AND COMMUNITY

INVOLVEMENT
An essential component in a comprehensive
school health education program since it
involves key personalities such as school,
parents, agencies (government and NGOs),
community groups and business sectors to
work collaboratively to address the health
problems and needs of students as well as
their families.

HEALTH IS A SHARED
RESPONSIBILITY

What is the importance of the of

the National Health Education
Standards?
Acknowledging the importance of educating
the young regarding their own health, the
Joint Committee on Health Education
Standards (JCHES, 1995) was formed to
develop the National Health Education
Standards to help young people become
health literate. It is believed that the National
Health Education Standards will:

What is the importance of the of the National Health

Education Standards?

1. ensure commonality of purpose and

consistency in concepts in health
2. Improve student learnin across the nation
3. Provide foundation for assessment of
students performance
4. Provide foundation for curriculum
development and instruction
5. Provide a guide for enhancing teacher
preparation and continuing education

Definition of Terms
HEALTH the state of complete
physical, mental, and social well-being
and not merely an absence of disease
or infirmity (WHO, 1947)
WELLNESS is also used to describe
health and quality of life that
encompasses the health triangle.

Definition of Terms
HEALTH KNOWLEDGE consists of
information that is needed to develop
health literacy, maintain and improve
health, prevent diseases, and reduce
health related risk behaviors.
HEALTH BEHAVIORS also referred to
as wellness behaviors, are actions that
promote health; prevent illness, injury
and premature death and improve
quality environment.

Definition of Terms
RISKS BEHAVIORS or harmful
behaviors are voluntary actions that
threaten health, increase the likelihood
of illness and premature death and
destroy the quality of the environment.
HEALTHFUL SITUATIONS are
circumstances that promote health and
prevent illness, injury and premature
death.

Definition of Terms
PROTECTIVE FACTORS are ways that
a person might behave and the
characteristics of the environment in
which a person lives that promote
health, safety and well-being.
RESISTANCE SKILLS are used to
when a person wants to say NO to an
action and leave a situation.

Definition of Terms

RESILIENCY the ability to prevent or

to recover, bounce back and learn from
misfortune, changenor pressure
HEALTH BEHAVIOR INVENTORY
personal assessment tool that contains
a list of actions to which a student
responds positively.

What risk behaviors does health

education primarily address?

Tobacco use
Alcohol and drugs
Behaviors thst may
result in unintentional
and intentional injuries
Prevalence of
communicable diseases
Inadequate physical
activities

Sexual behaviors that

result in HIV
infections, other
sexually transmitted
diseases (STDs), and
uninted pregnncy
Unhealthy dietary
behaviors

Why is there a need for school health

education?
The World Health Organization (WHO, 1996) recognizes
the need for school health education citing the
following reasons:
because of the documented linkages between the
health status of children and their educational
achievement
Because the most important determinant of a childs
health is the educational status of the mother.
Therefore, efforts to increase the school attendance
and improve the health education of girls can have
profound benefits.

Why is there a need for school health

education?
because the school is an important channel of
communication for health education messages to the
students, the family and the community as whole.
Because the relationship that needs to be
strengthened between in-school learning and out of
school health behavior;
Because education for life skills guides people to
think critically about health and social issues,
encourages them to work collaboratively on solving
problems, and provides them with the confidence
and expertise to participate fully in community
activities.