Comprehensive school health education as defined by the National Professional School Health Education Organizations.

Abstract

Abstract The idea for this definition of Comprehensive School Health Education originated at the National Conference on Promoting Health Through the Schools held in Denver August 25–26, 1980. Representatives of several professional school health education organizations at that conference formed a committee which met in San Francisco February 12–13, 1981, to develop a definition that could be sanctioned by the profession. Their first draft was further refined at a subsequent meeting on August 2–3, 1982. Funding for both meetings was provided by the National Center for Health Education. The second draft has undergone extensive revision from members and officers of the representative school health professional organizations. It is presented here as a service and stimulation to professional health educators with the recognition that over time revisions will (and should) occur.