title: Project HITE (health individualization and teacher education): a health curriculum for 3-, 4- and 5-year olds.
abstract: South Carolina has been a national leader in such health problems as cardiovascular disease, syphillis and gonorrhea. Since many of the problems could be attributed to poor health habits, education of the state's residents seemed in order. The education/re-education of inaccessible adults with firmly established health habits--poor or otherwise--was not feasible, but the education of impressionable, readily accessible three-, four- and five-year olds was possible. Through a grant from the federal government, an individualized health curriculum that could accommodate the differences of the learners and include vital health content was developed. This project of developing and distributing the health curriculum to teachers of young children was called Project HITE (Health Individualization and Teacher Education).
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003479:Curriculum; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D013022:South Carolina