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Sixth Graders Can Take Blood Pressures
Author(s) -
Johnson Edgar N.,
Stark Ruth
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1978.tb04569.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , medical education , set (abstract data type) , public health , medicine , blood pressure , unit (ring theory) , psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , nursing , computer science , programming language
A curriculum guide entitled “Heart Health Curriculum Guide” was developed with and by teachers in Pea‐body Public Schools under a Massachusetts Public Health grant to the American Heart Association. The 67‐page manual describes the format of the 12‐hour teacher workshop, background physiology of heart/ circulatory system, hypertension risk factors, a set of 20 lessons, and evaluating procedures. (Copies may be obtained for $3.00 by writing the corresponding author.) As a result of teaching this unit, sixth grade students in each school ran a Blood Pressure Screening Clinic for their parents and school staff.