A healthy young child thrives when the school or day care center is alive with well-planned activity and when the child's curiosity is regarded as a precious thing. (JD)

The necessary ingredients for an innovative health education program include a committed administrator and education director within each school, along with access to films, books, games, and a health consultant for each area. (JD)

Classroom games involving choices of nutritious foods can develop a child's concept of good eating habits. (JD)

This article discusses a general program of health education in schools based on the theory that children exposed to this program can, as they grow and change, respond to their bodies, function in a group, select a wide variety of appropriate foods, accept medical and dental care, and modify hazardous situations. (JD)

Much can be shared and learned in the child care center when there is a setting where children and adults are encouraged to learn about themselves and others and explore their many worlds of work and play; they can grow in understanding of their strengths and weaknesses as human beings. (JD)

Health educators should be aware of people as growth aspiring, with a basic nature of goodness, and that individuals need to experience those qualities within themselves which produce health and a zest for living. (JD)

Education in safety and injury control, while fully available, needs more public recognition and concern than it now receives. (JD)

The health educator should identify the causes of anti-social behavior, such as poor self-concept, negative peer influence, alienation and values confusion, in order to deal effectively with correcting unhealthy behavior patterns. (JD)

To help prevent drug and alcohol abuse the schools should develop a comprehensive health education program that deals with human feelings, human experience, and factual knowledge. (JD)

There are two basic trends in alcohol education--one aiming at containment and control, the other envisioning a society in which alcohol is morally neutral, its use integrated into activities that reflect social solidarity, and in which drinking is not associated with social hazard. (JD)

Students who are highly alienated report a higher incidence of drug use; accordingly, corrective and preventive action can be initiated to reduce alienation, and possibly, as a result, reduce the incidence of drug use. (JD)

Health educators can aid older consumers by integrating consumer services into other program offerings. (RC)

The drug industry gains excessive profits from the often irresponsible drug decision-making by the doctor, the pharmacist, and the ultimate consumer. (RC)

The realm of weight reduction is beset with influences that cloud the decision-making process. (RC)