Session Information
08 SES 10, Health Promoting Schools and Health Education: Curriculum and Implementation Issues in a European Perspective
Paper Session
Contribution
This paper discusses the rationale of the newly reformed health education curriculum in Cyprus, which aspires to enable not only teachers, but all the school personel, to work from the perspective of health promotion. It is a curriculum, which moves from the traditional approach of health education focusing on individual lifestyle/behaviour modification, into approaches that recognise and tackle the determinants of health.
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References
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