Chapter 12: Final 435
National Health Education Standards
The 8 national standards and the performance indicators aligned with each standard identify the important concepts, skills, and attitudes that students need in order to engage in health-enhancing behaviors and avoid health risks.
chool Nutrition Services
-Integration of nutritious, affordable, and appealing meals and nutrition education
Healthy School Environment
-Setting designed to provide both a safe and physical plant and a healthy supportive environment
What are the key objectives for achieving the goals of Health-Promoting Universities?
-The university setting is an opportunity to reach a large number of young people and provide them with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to enhance not only their personal health but also that of the families they will establish and the communities in which they will live -Initiatives to promote physical activity are integrated into the physical education component of the school health programs and are also an important aspect of health promotion in universities
What is the Shattuck Report?
-This report is one of the fundamental documents in public health in the United States. It is the first systematic use of birth and death records and other demographic data to describe the health of a population. Its recommendations became foundation of the sanitation movement in the United States, which saw the life expectancy increase from 25 years in Boston in 1850 to more than 75 years by the year 2000. The proposed law in part four of the report is the first attempt to write a comprehensive public health code. -Shattuck Report recommended that children receive health instruction in schools. Shattuck, Banks, and Abbott (1850) also recommended assessing sickness among students enrolled in schools and universities, seeking proof of vaccination as a requirement for school enrollment, using guidelines for the construction of healthy and safe schools, and hiring sanitary (health) professors in colleges and medical schools.
What are the serious health threats to children and adolescents in a school setting?
Asthma, Overweight and obesity, Diabetes, Injury, and Violence
What is the relationship between academic achievement and health?
Academic achievement is related to: -Reduction in health disparities -Reduction in health risk behaviors *The CDC notes that one of the major indicators for the overall well-being of youth and a primary predictor and determinant of adult health outcomes is academic success.
School Health Profiles
Biannual survey that currently assesses secondary school programs, services, and policies related to Health education Physical education and physical activity Health services Healthy and safe school environments Family and community involvement in secondary schools The survey describes initiatives and identifies long-term and short-term trends related to health programs and policies in secondary schools
Cultural Competence
Effective practice of health promotion in higher education requires professionals to demonstrate cultural competency and inclusiveness in advancing the health of individuals and communities.
Collaborative Practice
Effective practice of health promotion in higher education requires professionals to support campus and community partnerships to advance health promotion initiatives.
Theory-based Practice
Effective practice of health promotion in higher education requires professionals to understand and apply professionally recognized and tested theoretical approaches that address individual and community health.
What two groups should work together to support local educational and health agencies coordinating school health programs?
Family and community involvement Partnerships among schools, families, community groups, and individuals.
Why are health promotion programs needed in schools and universities?
Health promotion programs are needed in schools and universities because these children, adolescents, and young adults face a number of serious health threats
school health index?
Self assessment and planning tool that schools can use to improve local initiatives related to coordinated school health programs Includes modules linked to each of the 8 components of coordinated school health programs Elementary school version and a middle and high school version
YRBS
The CDC conducts the biannual survey in odd numbered years. Identifies, by state and by some large cities, the extent of high school students' participation in the 6 CDC risk behavior Can be used by local planners to identify local problems and compare their students with other students in their state or in the nation
Identify and define the resources that can be used to help plan, implement, and evaluate health promotion programs in school settings?
YRBS, School Health Profiles, School Health Index
