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. 2019 Nov;20(6):824-833.
doi: 10.1177/1524839919870194. Epub 2019 Aug 29.

Promoting Health Literacy Through Defining and Measuring Quality School Health Education

Donna M Videto  1 , Joseph A Dake  2
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Promoting Health Literacy Through Defining and Measuring Quality School Health Education

Donna M Videto et al. Health Promot Pract. 2019 Nov.

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Abstract

Changes in national and state policies in the past two decades have had a negative impact on school health education. During this same time, significant gains have been made in our understanding of the relationship between health and academic outcomes. This article proposes three challenges that could help refocus our country's efforts toward the positive impacts quality school health education can have on our population. Each of these challenges has corresponding recommendations to guide stakeholder efforts to help bring about these changes.

Keywords: child/adolescent health; coordinated school health programs; health literacy; logic models; program planning and evaluation; school health.

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The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2019).
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Sample Logic Model for School Health Education and Outcome NOTE: SHE = School Health Education; CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; CHES = Certified Health Education Specialist; HECAT = Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool; SHPPS = School Health Policy and Practices Study; WSCC = Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child; YRBSS = Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System; NHES = National Health Education Standards. SOURCE: Allensworth and Kolbe (1987); CDC (n.d., 2017d).
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