title: Perspectives on teaching comprehensive school health.
abstract: This paper seeks to give some perspective to health education teaching as it has developed over a period of time. First, I review the source of our modern comprehensive sequential curriculum design--just to remind us of its roots. Following that, I describe current developments in teaching, highlighting some examples of widely used curricula and sources of other teaching aids for health. Finally, I review some relevant findings from a recent evaluation of comprehensive health education in U.S. public schools to show us where we are today and to help answer the questions: "Is comprehensive school health education worthwhile?"
authors.affiliation: Emeritus Professor of Health Education, New York University.
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Hamburg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003479:Curriculum; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States