What is the difference between comprehensive school health programs and comprehensive school health education?
Comprehensive school health programs include health education but in addition, cultivate those components described above that provide services and additional support specific to individual student need. Comprehensive school health education is a planned, sequential curriculum of experiences presented by qualified professionals to promote the development of health knowledge, health-related skills, and positive attitudes toward health and well-being for students in preschool through grade 12. Comprehensive school health education is but one facet of the eight component comprehensive school health program. Offered as a discrete course and embedded in a science, life skills, physical education, or language arts offering, a comprehensive health education curriculum seeks to address the six risk-behaviors identified earlier. A highly regarded publication, National Health Education Standards: Achieving Health Literacy, (American Cancer Society, 1995) is a collaborative and definitive documen
