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affecting levels of health and disease; the health and disease spectrum; epidemiology
of health and disease; the agent - host - environment complex and multiple
versus single factor etiology; life span and life expectancy differences and interrelationships;
modern man ’ s health and longevity potential; human ecology and
health in the space age.
2. Human ecology and growth, development, maturation, aging . Structure and function
of the human. body, including the male and female reproductive systems;
human heredity and human reproduction; highlights of the physical, psychological,
and sociocultural characteristics of life cycle stages from birth and infancy to
old age and death; physical growth and development; growth charts —values and
limitations; male and female body types; individual differences in puberty and in
adolescent growth changes, including secondary sexual characteristics and psychosexual
development; major theories of aging and longevity; age and sex differences
in morbidity, mortality, and longevity; relationship of growth, development,
aging, and homeostasis to health, disease, and longevity.
3. Community and environmental health . Public health goals, services, principles,
and organization; legal aspects of public health as an official governmental agency;
full - time official public health departments — local, regional and state; economic
aspects of public health; national and international public health organizations;
cooperative relationships such as those with school health programs and occupational
hygiene programs: selected elements of vital statistics and demography
and the population explosion; major current public health problems and points
of attack; voluntary, commercial and professional health agencies; public health
personnel and career opportunities in public health and the health sciences; environmental
health and safety: (1) water purification (2) sanitary sewage disposal,
(3) garbage and refuse disposal, (4) insect and rodent control, (5) food sanitation,
(6) housing, lighting, heating and ventilation, (7) air pollution, (8) radiation
health hazards, (9) pesticides and herbicides, (10) sociocultural factors such as
urbanization, industrialization, secularization, and health and safety, (11) protection
from accident hazards; rise of the modern public health movement; public
health as a one - world ecological problem in the space age; the ecological crisis
and environmental pollution and quality control
In developing health curricula, we should avoid a crisis - oriented, piecemeal
approach. Critical health problems — such as drug abuse, cigarette smoking, and
sex education — should be included as an integral part of comprehensive health
education for grades K – 12. Some examples of health curricula of this type are
Oregon ’ s Four - Cycle Health Curriculum, started in 1945, which was the first spiral -
cycle health curriculum developed for grades 1 – 12 in the United States (Hoyman,
1945); the School Health Education Study ’s Health Education: A Conceptual
Approach to Curriculum Design (1967), which is by far the best example of a concept
approach in the United States; Hoyman ’ s Health Science Spiral Curriculum,