Background: Obesity is a significant health problem among today's youth; however, most school-based prevention programs in this area have had limited success. Focus groups were conducted with seventh- to eighth-grade students, parents, and teachers to provide insight into the development of a comprehensive program for the prevention of adolescent…

Ten elements of comprehensiveness related to school health education that have been agreed upon by key personnel involved in the four curricula studied by the School Health Education Evaluation (SHEE) are identified. The authors recommend that the elements of comprehensiveness concept should be added to further SHEE analysis. (Author/MT)

A position paper of the American Public Health Association advocates a comprehensive, sequential program of health education for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. (GW)

This paper explores a technique, simulation gaming, used by management and by planning educators in several fields for approaching some of the elements of human relations matters and concepts. It seeks to survey the development of this method by tracing the development of the simulation gaming technique in symbolic simulation. Some of its…

A comprehensive school health education program should maintain, reinforce, or enhance the health, health-related skills, and attitudes of students. An overview of the components of such a program, as well as criteria defining significant elements, is provided. (DF)

Poses 10 questions regarding research and policy issues in comprehensive school health promotion (CSHE). The answers are regarded as having potential for significantly influencing future funding, adoption, and implementation of CSHE. (GLR)

Continuity in the development of a comprehensive health education program for kindergarten through sixth grade is the goal of this curriculum guide for teachers. It is designed to encourage discussion and build concepts rather than to give specific information. Ten basic instructional areas and accompanying central concepts are identified: (1)…

The author describes a comprehensive health services program of treatment health education and vigorous follow-up designed to meet the needs of primarily low-income, minority children (k, 3-6) in Harlem. (MB)

The Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies survey conducted in spring 1985 drew responses from over 1,500 programs active in maternal and child health efforts directed toward low-income women and their families. The executive summary of this report identifies the major goals, common strategies, and needs of program respondents. Chapter 1 summarizes a…

This report discusses the role that school health centers can play in providing comprehensive health care and health education services to adolescents and reviews the effectiveness of such health centers in three Chicago high schools. School-based health centers need to stress: (1) high-quality care; (2) parental, school, and community…