It has been rightly said by Kothari Commission that destiny of a nation is shaped in her class-rooms. Schools can play an important role in promoting society’s health. Much effort has been invested over recent years in health education techniques for schools in low-income communities, including child-to-child methods, curriculum development and the production of locally appropriate education materials. Health Education as a means to improve the quality of life by helping people to acquire health by their own efforts within available resources has been accepted by all. For this reason it has been duly emphasized in both the National Health Policy and National Education Policy. In developing countries, school-age children form a sizable portion of the total population of these countries. As such, inclusion of Health Education as part of core curriculum from class I to X in the National Curriculum for Primary and Secondary Education by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is a significant step. School Health Education is an attempt to lay the foundation of the country through the health, vitality, character and general education of the students. This book would be beneficial to policy-makers, planners, implementer of elementary and secondary education. School faculty would be benefited most as once they start taking interest in children’s health, they would be doing an excellent work, as health is wealth. School health would promote family and social health as the children would act change agents.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.L. Goel
Dr. S.L. Goel, Emeritus Fellow UGC at Panjab University, and an eminent social scientist has been teaching Public Administration and Political Science for over thses decades. He has been a member of University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, Distance Education Council and a member of All India Board of Management under All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi. His field of specialisation is Public Administration and Management. He has been advisor to Himachal Pradesh and Haryana Health Departments under their USAID Programme. He has written a number of books on Management and Public Administration, foreign students for Doctoral research as well as conducted a large number of training programmes for senior administrators. He has been an elected member of the Senate of P.U., Chandigarh form 1984-88. He is widely traveled in India and Abroad. He was Chairman for UGC IXth Plan Allocation for the Universities in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and Co-Chairman for Maharashtra. North-East Universities as well as with some Central Universities. He was Convenor UGC Tth Plan Committee for Jama Milia University, New Delhi, Chitarkoot University, Chitarkoot, Rajasthan University, Jaipur and all Colleges of Delhi University. He was a member of Xth Plan Committee at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2003. As a member of UGC, he was associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff Colleges, Special Assistance Programme, Autonomous Colleges, where he contributed substantially. He has also published more than thirty books on other areas. He has been a Visiting Professor and a consultanat at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He visited USSR under Indo-cultural Exchange Programme. He has also served as Professor of Public Administration at Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Chandigarh and in the capacity directed a number of Executive Development Rogrammes meant for Senior Civil Servants. He visited D.R. of Korea, Japan, Hongkong to study the system of Education. He was in Hungary, Switzerland, France, Italy and U.K. to study the health care system in these countries during the summer of 1999.
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