Adult Health Education and Recreational Programs: National, State, and Local

The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that it is necessary to reaffirm its support for the concept of school health education, from kindergarten through grade 12, for all schoolchildren in the United States. A basic concept of pediatrics is prevention, and health education is a basic element in the delivery of comprehensive health care. The public is continually bombarded by the media about the high cost of medical care and the overutilization and incorrect use of medical facilities. The media also writes about the problems of increasing promiscuity and illegitimacy; the money wasted on quackery; practices that are detrimental to the health of people in the United States; and the lag in the dissemination of new health information and facts to the public. The Committee on School Health believes that community health education programs, of which school health education programs from kindergarten through grade 12 are an integral part, are one of the most viable methods to help alleviate these and similar problems. Therefore, the Committee on School Health makes the following recommendations and urges action for them at state and local levels. 1. Health education is a basic education subject, and it should be taught as such. Health education is compatible with other traditional subjects and can enhance the contribution that other basic subjects make to general life experience, understanding, and skills. 2. Planned, integrated programs of comprehensive health education should be required for students from kindergarten through grade 12. Instruction should be given by teachers qualified to teach health education.

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Adult Health Education

Learning with Adults ◽

10.1007/978-94-6091-768-4_18 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 197-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Leona M. English ◽

Peter Mayo

Keyword(s):

Health Education ◽

Adult Health

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Mental Health Indicator Parity: Integrating National, State, and Local Data

Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases IV ◽

10.1007/978-90-481-2243-1_4 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 81-109

Author(s):

Deepak Prabhakar ◽

Raquel Y. Qualls-Hampton ◽

Rachael Jackson ◽

Kathryn M. Cardarelli

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Indicator ◽

Local Data ◽

National State ◽

State And Local

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Parks Are Social

Boom A Journal of California ◽

10.1525/boom.2015.5.2.86 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 86-91

Author(s):

Jon Christensen

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Natural Areas ◽

Open Spaces ◽

National State ◽

Shared Content ◽

Wilderness Areas ◽

State And Local ◽

Photo Essay

Two years ago, Jon Christensen and Stamen Design began to explore social media generated every day in California parks, open spaces and natural areas, from city centers to wilderness areas. So far, they have gathered social media from more than half a million unique users of Instragram, Flickr, Twitter, and Foursquare who have shared content in one or more of the 11,826 parks in California. The project, like this photo essay, shows that parks are social—that is, people do things in parks that they do in the rest of their lives. They also show that diverse Californians will see people like themselves in parks they do. It is hoped that representing this diversity will encourage more California to use their national, state, and local parks.

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Intergovernmental Relations and Energy Policy: What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn

State and Local Government Review ◽

10.1177/0160323x18792969 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 50 (3) ◽

pp. 203-212

Author(s):

Luke Fowler

Keyword(s):

Energy Policy ◽

Local Governments ◽

Intergovernmental Relations ◽

National Policy ◽

Energy Policies ◽

Local Authorities ◽

Political Issue ◽

National State ◽

State And Local

Although energy has become a key political issue in recent decades, a comprehensive national policy is lacking, and state and local governments are playing increasingly important and diverse roles. This essay reviews what we know about intergovernmental relations in energy policy, including overlaps between national, state, and local authorities; the character of intergovernmental interactions; and interstate variations. In sum, this essay illustrates why intergovernmental issues in energy policies are an interesting and important area of inquiry, reviews current scholarship in key areas, and suggests possible future avenues for research on this topic.

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