Comprehensive health education helps students develop lifelong healthful habits. Learning about health concepts, along with the application of health information literacy and health communication skills, results in students making healthy choices throughout their lives.
Health education experiences during their school years, along with those in their families and communities, enable students to accept responsibility for their own health and wellness, and become an advocate for healthy behaviors.
National Health Education Standards are the basis for the development of knowledge and performance standards designed to assist students with becoming health literate; creating positive skills and attitudes about the development and maintenance of a healthy body; communicating, analyzing, and advocating healthy behaviors; learning to self-manage by choosing health-promoting and risk-reducing behaviors.
