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Health Education As A Component Of An Epidemiologic Survey
Author(s) -
Calkins Beverly,
Williams Phyllis M.
Publication year - 1983
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.1746-1561.1983.tb07819.x
Subject(s) - blood pressure , health education , epidemiology , medicine , component (thermodynamics) , environmental health , school health , family medicine , pediatrics , gerontology , public health , medical education , nursing , physics , thermodynamics
A health education component was an integral part of the screening phase of a large epidemiological blood pressure study. Slide‐tape programs, printed material and models appropriate to the age levels (6–16) of the children were used. As the children entered the room set aside by the school for the study, they were assigned to one of three stations: height and weight, blood pressure measurement or health education. The children then rotated to the remaining stations as a group; the printed material was handed out as they left. These activities and material served the three‐fold purpose of: (1) meeting the school administration's concern that the school day be used for education; (2) educating thousands of children and their parents about blood pressure; and (3) keeping the children constructively occupied and quiet while their classmates were having their blood pressure measured.