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Peer reviewedCortines, Ramon C. – PTA Today, 1992
Despite the need to change health behavior and the evidence that instruction can do so, health instruction is nonexistent or inadequate for most students in U.S. schools. The article recommends a national policy on sequential, planned comprehensive K-12 school health education. (SM)
Descriptors: Child Health, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Health Education
