The Carnegie Foundation Report on Secondary Education in America Throughout our nation's history, health and education initiatives have recognized the importance of health instruction to promote students' health and educational achievement. Today, the provision of comprehensive, kindergarten through grade twelve school health education is a national health objective and access to health education is a national education objective. The outcome of comprehensive school health education, health literacy, is key to improved educational achievement for students and improved health in the United States. Earlier in the semester, we looked at a definition of health, health risk behaviors, and resiliency. Hundreds of studies have looked at the effectiveness of health education.
Health education works.
Read this excellent article, Why Have Health Instruction in the Schools . An individual's health is a reflection of higher physical, mental, and social well being. To be healthy means more than just being free of disease. The goal of health education focuses on developing and enhancing positive life choices that will enable an individual to sustain the highest possible levels of physical, mental and social wellness. To foster healthy individuals is to foster a healthy society, of which the rewards to all are great.