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Health Education
A
planned, sequential, K-12 curriculum that addresses the physical,
mental, emotional and social dimensions of health. The curriculum
is designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve
their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors.
It allows students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated
health-related knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. The comprehensive
health education curriculum includes a variety of topics such
as personal health, family health, community health, consumer health,
environmental health, sexuality education, mental and emotional health,
injury prevention and safety, nutrition, prevention and control of
disease, and substance use and abuse. Qualified, trained teachers
provide health education. (CDC)
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