Comprehensive school health education: a practical definition.
This article identifies 10 essential elements of comprehensiveness related to school health education that have been agreed upon by key personnel long involved in one or more of the four school health curriculum programs studied in the School Health Education Evaluation (SHEE) study. Each element is briefly described and followed with one or two examples of practical applications selected from the four curricula. The authors further concur with the concept that a Consumer Reports type of reporting of school health curriculum models might be useful in further SHEE data analysis and that the "elements of comprehensiveness" concept might be a valuable adjunct to such reporting.
D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D003479:Curriculum; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000517:prevention & control; D012574:Schools; D014481:United States