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Areas Of Health: The Place of Health Education in the Curriculum. In U. S. public schools, health instruction has been achieved through a variety of organizational patterns. One method is to include facts on health in such content areas of health as biology, social studies, or home economics. Units of health related to these areas of health have been included in the regular classroom instruction. However, the most successful method of accomplishing the aims and objectives of health education is that of direct instruction. In this method health instruction is considered a distinct part of the total school curriculum.
Health and Welfare.—The province provides direct health guidance and preventive medicine services through some 70 health units operating in the settled areas of health (except large urban areas of health, such as Montreal and Quebec, which have their own health services). Care of the needy, sick, and other persons is carried out largely by voluntary religious and lay organizations, the cost being met chiefly by the province, with smaller contributions from the institution caring for the person aided and from his municipality of residence.
The strategy used was to bring health care services, new homes, recreation areas of health, and improved education and schools to decayed areas of health, as well as to provide for street paving, improvement of mass transportation, and the creation of employment opportunities. A closely related program was a positive plan of action undertaken throughout U.S. cities for rat control, to eliminate the problems of environmental health that are created by rat infestation.
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