Health and Education

Health bringing up is an essential tool of club wellness. Every fork of community health has a health educational aspect and both community health worker is a health educator. But health education has been defined as a process which effects changes in the health practices of people and in the knowledge and attitudes related to suet changes. A majuscule deal of ill-health in this country and elsewhere is due to ignorance of simple rules of hygiene or of indifference to their practical application. However, health is of the greatest importance and an crucial factor in life.Without it a man becomes burden to others and useless to himself. In other words, health is the basis of individual and social welfare. But the image of health and practice of health-education is al about as old as the humane race. Health education has been defined as the sum of all experiences in school and elsewhere that favor ably influence habits, attitudes and knowledge, related to individual, communi ty and racial health. At present in our country much fear is being paid to the education for total health. Good health is a pre condition for good education.There is a saying that sound head word lives in a sound body. So, education cannot be acquired without the proper frame of the mind and proper frame of mind cannot be possible without proper health and hygiene. Realizing the importance of health education Secondary Education Commission, 1952-53 stated Unless strong-arm education is accepted as an integral part of education and the educational authorities recognize it, need in schools the youth of the country, which form its most variable asset, will never be able to pull their plentiful weigh to national welfare.The emphasis so far has been more on the academic type of education without proper consideration being given(p) to physical welfare and the maintenance proper standards of health of the pupils. Health education is the very foundation of every successful public heal th computer program so one of the main functions educations should be to help every shaver develop a healthy body, an alert mind and sound emotional attitudes. Health education aims at bridging the gulf between the health knowledge and health practices of the children.