Guideline: Future Trends of Health Education The purpose of reflection is for students to appraise and apply content from their own perspectives
Future Trends of Health Education
The purpose of reflection is for students to appraise and apply content from their own perspectives.
Appropriate components for content reflection assignments include: reflection on what was learn, what change your mind, what is helpful, what is disagreeable, what challenge what you already think, etc.
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During the past 30 years, Health Education has been taking place in a variety of ways.
There have been awareness campaigns towards the prevention, monitoring and control of potentially epidemic diseases.
Some have target specialists, by sharing information on the progress and problems surrounding the control of epidemics.
Others were addressed to the public, for example prevention campaigns on tuberculosis, leprosy, polio, Chagas disease etc., following in the wake of 19th century hygiene campaigns.
The use of radio, cinema, television and other communication media were in call for in such cases.
During the 70’s, parental worries about drug use led to more specific interventions,
which were meant to warn children of its dangers.
In many cases, one-off classroom interventions were suppos ed to ‘vaccinate’ students,
in a medical, preventive and cognitive approach.
But doubts regarding the efficiency of such interventions stimulate d a reflection process in the 80’s, and the emergence of a more systematic Health Education, with a global and positive approach to health,
covering many topics such as prevention, hygiene, safety, first aid, and so on.
Further, biology lessons were broadene d to include the dimension of health, mainly in primary and in early secondary school.
The most frequently developed topics are dietary, bodily and dental hygiene,
the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), especially since the advent of Aids, sexual education, with a focus on contraception, and drugs.