School health education: challenge for national and international agencies.
There are, in today's world, more than a billion young people of school age. Hundreds of millions of them are enrolled in the schools. They constitute the greatest single readily-reachable population group and present one of our greatest opportunities toward achieving a brighter health future. Are we availing ourselves of this opportunity? It is sad but true that too often school health education is considered as "something extra", a matter of peripheral interest, and is given low priority in school curriculum. Yet these young people--in the schools and outside them--are the parents, the citizens, the leaders of tomorrow. Theirs is the health of the future. We cannot afford to leave the health citizenship of the future to a generation only causally educated about life.
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Division of Adolescent and School Health, CCDPHP/CDC, Atlanta, GA 30333.
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Dhillon
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O'Byrne
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003479:Curriculum; D006266:Health Education; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies; D009938:Organizations; D012574:Schools