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CHAPTER

9

HEALTH EDUCATION AND

HEALTH PROMOTION:

A LOOK AT THE JUNGLE

OF SUPPORTIVE FIELDS,

PHILOSOPHIES AND

THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

T HOMAS C. T IMMRECK

G ALEN E. C OLE

G ORDON J AMES

D IANE D. B UTTERWORTH

H istorically, health education (instruction for hygiene) was founded on concerns

such as the lack of physical fitness in school children or military inductees. Habits

such as drug and alcohol use, viewed detrimental to society and especially children,

were also a focus of many original health education activities. Health education, with

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