学校保健における保健教育と一次予防

School health programs consist of health education and health management. It can be said that the former provides children important opportunities for primary prevention,which is related to maintenance and improvement of their health. In school education, it was not until after the Second World War that Japan launched health education programs on a full-scale. Concerning smoking prevention education, which is one of the health education programs, its effect has been identified at all levels of schools, including elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools.Furthermore, it has been revealed that smoking prevention programs at schools are likely to have effects not only on school children, but also ripple effects on their families through the children.In the future, cancer education will be introduced into health education as a new education program. Therefore, consider teaching materials should be examined and also teacher training courses should be enriched so that effective cancer education programs can be implemented.It has been reconfirmed that health education enables children, both at present and in the future, as well as their families and consequently people in the community, to maintain and improve their health, and it also provides them important and ideal opportunities they might utilize as primary prevention.