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Health Education Skills and Malnutrition

AuthorB.K.P. Singh
PublisherSurendra Pub
Publisher2011
Publisherviii
Publisher296 p,
ISBN9789380014661
Contents: Preface. 1. Health education. 2. Values in health education. 3. Health planning in India. 4. Nutrition and health education. 5. Food, nutrition and health education. 6. Skills and childhood education. 7. Skills based health education. 8. Malnutrition. 9. Macro and micro causes of malnutrition. 10. The development of the school health education programme. Bibliography. Index.

Health education is the profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health and spiritual health. It can be defined as the principle by which individuals and groups of people learn to behave in a manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance, or restoration of health. There has been a dichotomy in the thinking of the general public and to lesser extent in the thinking of educators. Both have tended to think that in nursery and kindergarten children were learning, but nothing specially related to academic skills. Malnutrition is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking, in excess (too high an intake), or in the wrong proportions. A number of different nutrition disorders may arise, depending on which nutrients are under or overabundant in the diet. The comprehensive coverage and essential information on all aspects related to health education, skills and malnutrition should make this book reliable one shop reference make this book reliable one stop reference on all issues pertaining to children, their health, growth and development.

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