BULACAN STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

HEALTH
EDUCATION
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNIVERSITY TEACHING DIFFERENT
TOPICS UNDER HEALTH EDUCATION

MEMBERS:
JAMES MOSES S. MANGAHAS
JESCEL MAE A. DIAMANTE
HANAH ANGELICA C. ENRIQUEZ
JOYCE S. GUAY
ROSEMARIE O. HABOLIN
RACHELLE ANN C. SANTOS

MS. SHARON JOY SANTOS

SUBJECT TEACHER
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HEALTH EDUCATION

Health education builds students' knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes about

health. Health education teaches about physical, mental, emotional and social health. It

motivates students to improve and maintain their health, prevent disease, and reduce risky

behaviors.

Health education curricula and instruction help students learn skills they will use

to make healthy choices throughout their lifetime. Effective curricula result in positive

changes in behavior that lower student risks around:

Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, injury prevention, mental and emotional

health, nutrition, physical activity, prevention of diseases and sexuality and family life.

Health education promotes learning in other subjects! One study showed that

reading and math scores of third and fourth grade students who received comprehensive

health education were significantly higher than those who did not. In general, healthy

students learn better. Numerous studies have shown that healthier students tend to do

better in school. They have higher attendance, have better grades, and perform better on

tests.

But the researchers found out that Health Education has weaknesses with regards

on teaching some of topics under it. These topics must consider first the maturity and age

of the audience or the students. Next is the sensitivity of each individual with regards to

those topics. Because of these lapses, some of the topics are not learned inside the
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classroom and they will gain the knowledge from that topic thru internet without the

guidance and approach of the teachers or elders that will cause so many consequences

when they misunderstood those topics.

The proponents conduct a survey on which the respondents simply tell what are

the topics of Health Education are being teach to them and what are the topics should

give more emphasis so that they have the awareness to those topics.

The data below is the result of the survey of 100 College of Education students

answering the question whether if the University is adopting a policy stating that college

students have learned already each of the following topics inside the classroom.

PERSONAL HYGEINE
YES: 84% NO: 16%
DENTAL AND ORAL HEALTH
YES: 32% NO: 78%
NUTRITION AND DIETARY
BEHAVIOUR
YES: 84% NO: 16%
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND FITNESS –
CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION, NOT A
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PERIOD
YES: 92% NO: 8%
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
YES: 92% NO: 8%
HUMAN SEXUALITY
YES: 80% NO: 20%
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PREGNANCY PREVENTION

YES: 60% NO: 40%

HIV PREVENTION
YES: 52% NO: 48%
STD PREVENTION
YES: 56% NO: 44%
EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
YES: 84% NO: 16%
SUICIDE PREVENTION
YES: 76% NO: 24%
DEATH AND DYING
YES: 44% NO: 56%
TOBACCO USE PREVENTION
YES: 88% NO: 12%
ALCOHOL OR OTHER DRUG USE
PREVENTION
YES: 84% NO: 16%
VIOLENCE PREVENTION, FOR
EXAMPLE BULLYING, FIGHTING, OR
HOMICIDE
YES: 88% NO: 12%
ACCIDENT OR INJURY PREVENTION
YES: 88% NO: 12%
CPR
YES: 84% NO: 16%
FIRST AID
YES: 96% NO: 4%

IMMUNIZATIONS OR VACCINATIONS
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YES: 44% NO: 56%

SUN SAFETY OR SKIN CANCER
PREVENTION
YES: 44% NO: 56%
CONSUMER HEALTH, SUCH AS
CHOOSING SOURCES OF
HEALTH-RELATED INFORMATION,
PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES WISELY
YES: 92% NO: 8%
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, SUCH AS
HOW AIR AND WATER QUALITY CAN
AFFECT HEALTH
YES: 88% NO: 12%
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As what the table shows, some of the topics are learned from school but some is

not being emphasized during the class. These are Dental and Oral Health,

Pregnancy prevention, HIV Prevention, STD Prevention, Death and Dying,

Immunizations or Vaccinations, Sun Safety or Skin Cancer Prevention. Some of

the topics have their own commonalities and that is all of them is more of

prevention of diseases and more related to sex education. These topics is

considered as sensitive topics because the number of teenagers having these cases

is increasing here now in our country. But on the other hand, some topics have

showed that they are learned inside the classroom and up until now, they can still

remember what these topics all about are. Emotional and mental health, Suicide

prevention, Tobacco use prevention, Alcohol or other drug use prevention,

Violence prevention, for example bullying, fighting, or homicide, Accident or

injury prevention, CPR, First aid, Consumer health, and Environmental health.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Ensure that Health education instruction focuses not only on teaching content

knowledge but on teaching skills, including:

 Decision-making, Problem-solving, Accessing reliable health information Goal-

setting, Communication, Negotiation and refusal, Assertiveness, and Advocacy

skills.

 Have one or more than one person who oversees or coordinates Health

education.
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 Involve parents and families in Health education.

 Make sure that the Health

education curriculum is

planned, sequential, and

developmentally appropriate

to better address all of the

health instruction outcomes

(required content areas).

 Provide health information

to parents and families through educational materials sent home and

involvement in school-sponsored activities.

 Provide opportunities for Health educators to coordinate instruction with

teachers of other subjects and integrate Health into other content areas,

particularly Science, Physical Education, and Family & Consumer Sciences.

 Require that the lead Health education teacher in each school have New

Hampshire certification in Health education.

 Review and update the curriculum on a regular basis - at most, every five years.

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