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"Four core components
which should be made available together
and in all schools"
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Below you will find information on:
- Skills-based health education
- Why is skills-based health education one of the four components of the FRESH framework?
- What is skills-based health education?
- What are the “skills” referred to in this approach?
- How is skills-based health education implemented?
- What are participatory teaching methods?
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Skills-based health education
More than ever before, health and well being are influenced by social and behavioural factors. The skills-based approach to health, hygiene and nutrition education focuses on the development of knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to make and carry out positive health decisions.
Quality skills-based health education helps young people to acquire communication, negotiation and refusal skills, and to think critically, solve problems and make independent decisions. Skills-based health education contributes to the development of attitudes and values that promote respect for oneself and for others, tolerance of individual differences and peaceful co-existence. It results in the adoption of health-promoting habits, such as healthy eating, and reduces risk-taking behaviour associated with HIV/STI infection, unplanned pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, injury, etc. Young people who receive quality skills-based health education are more likely to adopt and sustain a healthy lifestyle not only during their school years, but throughout their lives.
Why is skills-based health education one of the four components of the FRESH framework?
A large amount of research has documented the fact that health and education are inseparable. To be effective, education systems must ensure that children are healthy and able to learn.
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What is skills-based health education?
Knowledge is necessary, but not sufficient, to guarantee the adoption and maintenance of health-promoting behaviour. Skills-based health education is education that helps individuals develop the knowledge, attitudes, and especially skills needed to make and carry out positive health decisions.
read more
What are the “skills” referred to in this approach?
The skills referred to in skills-based health education include both the manual skills associated with specific health behaviours and psycho-social life skills.
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How is skills-based health education implemented?
Skills-based health education relies on relevant and effective content and participatory or interactive teaching and learning methods.
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What are participatory teaching methods?
Interactive or participatory teaching and learning methods replicate the natural processes by which children learn behaviour. These include observation, modelling, and social interaction.
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Skills-based health education
More than ever before, health and well being are influenced by social and behavioural factors. The skills-based approach to health, hygiene and nutrition education focuses on the development of knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to make and carry out positive health decisions.
Quality skills-based health education helps young people to acquire communication, negotiation and refusal skills, and to think critically, solve problems and make independent decisions. Skills-based health education contributes to the development of attitudes and values that promote respect for oneself and for others, tolerance of individual differences and peaceful co-existence. It results in the adoption of health-promoting habits, such as healthy eating, and reduces risk-taking behaviour associated with HIV/STI infection, unplanned pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, injury, etc. Young people who receive quality skills-based health education are more likely to adopt and sustain a healthy lifestyle not only during their school years, but throughout their lives.
Why is skills-based health education one of the four components of the FRESH framework?
A large amount of research has documented the fact that health and education are inseparable. To be effective, education systems must ensure that children are healthy and able to learn.
read more
What is skills-based health education?
Knowledge is necessary, but not sufficient, to guarantee the adoption and maintenance of health-promoting behaviour. Skills-based health education is education that helps individuals develop the knowledge, attitudes, and especially skills needed to make and carry out positive health decisions.
read more
What are the “skills” referred to in this approach?
The skills referred to in skills-based health education include both the manual skills associated with specific health behaviours and psycho-social life skills.
read more
How is skills-based health education implemented?
Skills-based health education relies on relevant and effective content and participatory or interactive teaching and learning methods.
read more
What are participatory teaching methods?
Interactive or participatory teaching and learning methods replicate the natural processes by which children learn behaviour. These include observation, modelling, and social interaction.
read more |
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