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Health education builds students' knowledge, skills and positive attitudes about health. Health education teaches about physical, mental, emotional and social health. It motivates students to improve and maintain their health, prevent disease and reduce risky behaviors.
Health education promotes learning in other subjects. Studies have shown that reading and math scores of students who received comprehensive health education were significantly higher than those who did not. In general, healthy students learn better. They have higher attendance, have better grades, and perform better on tests.*
Without basic health literacy, societies are at a huge disadvantage both economically and culturally. It may seem like a stretch to compare Maine communities to those in poorer or developing countries where knowledge about health and healthcare are not as widespread as in the U.S., but ask yourself, where did you learn about health and how to be healthy?
Most of us who are now adults, learned about the human body, health and disease, physical fitness and nutrition not just from our parents, but in school. Where will Maine communities be in 5 years, 10 or 20 years if we don’t ensure that our children learn about their own health and understand how to preserve it? The financial and social toll of disease and addiction will continue to erode our society if we do not prioritize health education at the core of our most basic skills-teaching in school. Math and reading are essential, but so is our health.
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