Spiritual_Wellness_Holistic_Health_and_the_Practic

238 Philosophical Foundations of Health Education
1. Ecology of drug use vs. drug abuse
2. Prevention and control vs. eradication of disease
3. Wellness vs. optimum health
4. Zero population growth vs. a 0.5 percent annual increase
5. Ecology of food production and distribution vs. obesity and famine
6. Multiple vs. single factor theories of diseases causation
7. People impact vs. Spaceship Earth
8. Population growth vs. population density distribution
9. Human survival vs. human fulfillment
10. Death control vs. birth control vs. population control
11. Population control vs. genocide and ethnocide
12. Length of life vs. quality of living
13. Renewable vs. nonrenewable natural resource
14. Environmental quality vs. cost control and the GNP
15. Environmental pollution vs. a democratic solution
16. Euthanasia vs. “ human vegetables ”
17. Man mastering nature vs. man mastering himself
18. Family planning vs. population control
19. Abortion vs. contraception — babies by choice instead of by chance
20. Ecological optimism vs. the new Jeremiahs and Paul Reveres
21. Science vs. values
4. More Realistic Teacher Preparation
The preparation of prospective health teachers is top - heavy with theory. The last
thing a graduating health teacher encounters is a student. To a mission - oriented
teacher the confrontation often comes with a brutal shock. Health teachers need much
more practical work in their preparation, such as nurses get in good nursing schools
and training hospitals. Apprenticeship experiences should be started in the freshman and
sophomore years. Juniors should be required to take a field work course in community
health education. School observations plus realistic microteaching should lead
up to student teaching — preferably off campus. I feel that a full year of student teaching
is highly desirable with some experience in urban schools and ghetto areas.