Pro-Health Education of Youth in Poland

• Authors: Aleksandra Michalska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Nowadays, thanks to greater awareness of society and development of restorative medicine, more and more attention is paid to preventive care. That is caused by the fact that there is little progress for both sexes in the frequency of healthy behavior: girls fall much worse than boys in terms of frequency of physical activity, they do not eat breakfast either; boys do not maintain a healthy diet and are reluctant to eat vegetables and fruits, they often drink high-calorie sodas and less frequently brush teeth. Though with age some improvements in oral hygiene and certain eating behaviors can be noticed. It has been determined that overweight and obesity is a serious problem, as they can contribute to developmental disorders. In this respect it should be the responsibility of teachers to provide individual physical education (according to medical qualifications), prevent various forms of discrimination and bullying among peers, provide individual counseling and health education, weight control of students. It has been defined that for modern teachers it is a difficult task as students rarely eat fruits and vegetables, do not care about hygiene and frequency of meals, have passive mode of leisure. The acquisition of health during puberty allows functioning smoothly in society. However, despite the continuous work on improving and introduction of new programs of health education classes into schools of Poland, children still suffer from health-related problems. According to epidemiological research most of children in Poland fall on obesity, overweight and accompanying disorders and allergies. Youth is also exposed to accidents and related injuries. The problem is that students do not receive assistance and necessary information.

Keywords

EN

pro-health education; school children; personality; consciousness; behavior prevention; risk behaviors; education; health problems

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Comparative Professional Pedagogy
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 64-68

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2014-07-02

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Michalska

• Khmelnytskyi National University, MES of Ukraine Address: 11 Instytutska Str., Khmelnytskyi, 29016, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rpp-2014-0021