Comprehensive Health Education Law and Legal Definition
Comprehensive Health Education provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to be healthy throughout their lifetime. The comprehensive health education program motivate students to maintain and improve their health; prevent disease; and avoid or reduce health related risk behaviors. Comprehensive health education curriculum provides the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health.
Important elements of comprehensive health education are:
a documented, planned, and sequential program of health instruction for students in grades kindergarten through twelve;
a curriculum that addresses and integrates education about a range of categorical health problems and issues at developmentally appropriate ages;
activities assisting young people to develop the skills needed to avoid tobacco use; dietary patterns that contribute to disease; sedentary lifestyle; sexual behaviors that result in HIV infection, other STDs and unintended pregnancy; alcohol and other drug use; and behaviors that result in unintentional and intentional injuries;
instruction provided for a prescribed amount of time at each grade level;
management and coordination by an education professional trained to implement the program;
instruction from teachers who are trained to teach the subject;
involvement of parents, health professionals, and other concerned community members;
periodic evaluation, updating, and improvement.
Legal Definition list
- Comprehensive General Liability Policy
- Comprehensive Fish and Wildlife Management Plan
- Comprehensive Environmental Response Cleanup and Liability Act
- Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
- Comprehensive Coverage
- Comprehensive Health Education
- Comprehensive Housing Plan
- Comprehensive Insurance
- Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility (CORF)
- Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility Services
- Comprehensive Planning
Related Legal Terms
- 504 Plan [Education]
- Abrogation [Education]
- Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG) Program [Education]
- Academic Department [Education]
- Academic Field [Education]
- Accelerated Benefits (Health Care)
- Accreditation (Education)
- Accredited Educational Institution
- Accrediting Agency [Education]
- Accumulation Value (Health Care)
