Health Education and the School Child

Health Education is an attempt to combine-traditional and scientific medicine, especially preventative medicine, with the techniques of communication, born out of the greater social understanding of the needs of the cammunity. Despite the advancement of education as a science, many teachers believe that the teaching of public health principles to school children to be impractical administratively, although the staff of many colleges of education strongly endorse these ideas. Two-aspects of health and physical education exist.