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Physical And Mental Health: The goal of health education is to help persons live zestful and productive lives in an environment that is as free as possible of threatening or damaging conditions (though it may be full of challenges). As a discipline health education draws content from the physical and mental health, biological, medical, and behavioral sciences. Since it is concerned with mental and social, as well as physiological, well-being, health education is a broader field than physical and mental health education.
Official agencies are those supported by tax moneys. These agencies exist at the national, state, and local levels. The National Institute of Health, the Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service, and Health Services and Mental Health Administration are all part of the U. S. Public Health Service. This national agency is part of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Mass investigations on the basis of age norms, however, have indicated only a slight relation between the mental and physical and mental health status of children. A spurt in mental growth does not appear to parallel the preadolescent spurt in physical and mental health growth. The pattern of mental development is similar in boys and girls, despite the difference in their rates of physical and mental health maturing.
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