ED2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Cost, Gestational Diabetes, Childhood Obesity
Health Education
The importance of teaching Health Education in the primary classroom
- Life Skills we need - implement them earlier on so they are exposed to the facts earlier
- Health-related issues all around us
- Health Education helps students to develop strategies to cope with the pressures of living in today’s
society - develop long term changes
- Patterns of behaviour and attitudes that are developed while young will determine personal health
beliefs and habits later in life.
- Health behaviours are formed early and the teacher can positively impact on them
- School / teacher is significant other & role model, the school is an influential agency in the child's life -
parents reinforce in the home
- Health is about intervention – address the issues & give the students the skills & knowledge to make
informed decisions for the long term.
Health Education Focus Areas – Australian Curriculum
- Safety, Alcohol and other Drugs , Mental Health and Well Being, Relationships and sexuality, Health
Benefits of Physical Activity, Food and Nutrition
Child societal health issues we are concerned with:
- smoking, alcohol & drug use, obesity – inactivity & poor nutrition, diabetes
Health Education Focus Areas:
- Safety
- Alcohol and other drugs
- Mental Health and well being
- Relationships and sexuality
- Health benefits of physical activity
- Food and nutrition
Child Health Issues - Our Concerns
- Smoking - early uptake
- Alcohol - Binge drinking
- Illicit drug use
- Obesity
- Inactivity
- Diabetes
Smoking
(2014 Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco report)
- Smoking among 12 to 15 year olds is at its lowest level since 1984, when the survey began
- There was a significant decrease in the youth smoking rate (12-17 year olds). In 2014, 5% were current
smokers which is significantly lower than the 7% found in both 2011 and 2008; and
- More youth have no experience with smoking in their lifetime: 94% of 12 year olds and 61% of 17
year olds.
- Major cause of drug related deaths
- Reasons – for the reduction in Smoking
Alcohol
- Binge drinking becomes increasingly prevalent at around 14 and 15 years
- The proportion of students aged between 12-17 years drinking in 2011 was lower than levels found in
2008 and 2005
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Document Summary
The importance of teaching health education in the primary classroom. Life skills we need - implement them earlier on so they are exposed to the facts earlier. Health education helps students to develop strategies to cope with the pressures of living in today"s society - develop long term changes. Patterns of behaviour and attitudes that are developed while young will determine personal health beliefs and habits later in life. Health behaviours are formed early and the teacher can positively impact on them. School / teacher is significant other & role model, the school is an influential agency in the child"s life - parents reinforce in the home. Health is about intervention address the issues & give the students the skills & knowledge to make informed decisions for the long term. Safety, alcohol and other drugs , mental health and well being, relationships and sexuality, health. Child societal health issues we are concerned with:
