SKILL-BASED HEALTH EDUCATION FOR AMELIORATING SCHOOL CHALLENGES OF SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAMME TO MEET SCHOOL NEEDS

Abstract

The MDGs directed toward health promotion were not fully achieved, as health promotion through well implemented and functional school health programme, was far from reach. This is presumed to have necessitated the myriad of school challenges which affect school needs. The skill-based health education was therefore developed as a model to ameliorate the school challenges to meet school needs. The model exists in three phases with the first being healthful school living needs, second health instruction needs and lastly health service needs. The model also has a pool of school challenges of school health programme and instructional skills which run reciprocally to dynamically connect the three phases. In order to realize the purpose of the paper, instructors or other personnel concerned with health and instruction of leaners in the school are required to follow the procedure of use of the model. The instructors and others must first be acquainted with detailed understanding of the concept of instructional skills and the rudiments of their use in order to effectively use the model to meet the purpose of health promotion and disease prevention. Supervision, monitoring and assessment of progress can also be done with specific methods which are suggested in the paper.