Elementary Health

 

Altoona's Elementary Comprehensive Health Education Program provides students with knowledge and understanding about the importance of disease prevention.

 

Besides focusing on the prevention of illness, Altoona's Comprehensive Health Education Program addresses immediate health and safety concerns.

 

The elementary health program gives students information they need for improved health throughout their lives, and provides students with accurate information needed to make decisions that will affect personal health today. . . and in the future.

 

The Elementary Comprehensive Health program emphasizes ten areas: community health, consumer health, disease prevention and control, family health, safety and first aid, fitness, growth and development, nutrition, personal health, and substance use and abuse.

• Cultivate an understanding of the benefits of good personal health care and physical fitness.
• Grasp the basics of body structure, function, and growth.
• Comprehend the importance of good nutrition and the complexities of substance use and abuse.
• Recognize the importance of mental, social, and family health and well-being.
• Understand consumer health and the need for disease prevention and control.
• Practice safety and first-aid techniques.
• Show an awareness of community and environmental health.