THE PLACE OF SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION IN PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF NEW DISEASES

This paper focuses on the place of School Health Education in the prevention of
new diseases. Health and Health Education was x-rayed covering meaning and
determinant factors of health, health literacy; a function of health education.
School Health Education was analyzed in the light of being a component of the
School Health Programme, according to the already revised National School
Health Policy of 2006. The concept of new diseases was discussed with attention
to meaning and types of diseases according to classifications. New diseases was
viewed as infections that have recently appeared within a population or those
whose geographical range is rapidly increasing or threatens to increase in the near
future. Factors that necessitate the emergence of new diseases were identified,
including the how. The knowledge offered through health education fosters the
growth of the physical, social, mental and emotional well being as well as
eradicate, ignorance of these diseases among school children – this was seen as a
key function of the school Health Education in the prevention of new diseases.
There are several challenges facing the proper implementation of the School
Health Education where solutions were suggested. It was recommended among
others that government should liaise with key players to develop, implement and
enforce the implementation of School Health Education for the prevention of new
diseases.