Each of these subjects contributes to comprehensive health education. Together they develop students' knowledge of health concepts, life management skills, and habits that can facilitate lifelong health for the individual and for others. To be most effective, health should be taught regularly, beginning with a student's entry into school and continuing through grade 12. A sequential curriculum introduces concepts and skills in the early grades and reinforces them with more detailed and complex information and skills in the later grades. And To Make Health Enhancing Decisions.
Health education equips students to assess risks in an informed manner in their everyday lives.
Students learn how to identify and evaluate various types and degrees of health risk and become aware of specific behaviors that pose risks for themselves and others, now and in the future. Students learn how to determine the likely consequences of their actions and how to determine which information is needed to assess health risks and make responsible decisions. Influences on personal health, including why people relapse into unhealthy conduct and behaviors and how relapse can sometimes be prevented, are important health concepts. Comprehensive health education teaches students to inquire, reason well, and solve problems. Students set goals, appraise risks, and demonstrate behaviors and conduct that protect and enhance their health.