The Obesity Epidemic: A Call for Health Educators to Lead--A Commentary

Autor/in	Snelling, Anastasia
Titel	The Obesity Epidemic: A Call for Health Educators to Lead--A Commentary
Quelle	In: American Journal of Health Education, 43 (2012) 3, S.132-134 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1932-5037
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Obesity; Health Behavior; Teacher Educators; Decision Making; Educational Policy; Instructional Leadership; Teacher Attitudes; Teaching Methods; Health Education; Federal Legislation; Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adipositas; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Lehrerverhalten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Bundesrecht; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	The childhood obesity epidemic is one of the defining health challenges of this decade and perhaps the 21st century. Obesity rates among youths have nearly tripled in the past three decades. Solving the obesity epidemic requires that students understand and accept the changes within the environment and ultimately modify their health behaviors to include more physical activity and healthful food choices. Health education teachers have the opportunity to champion this cause and assume a leadership role in this process and in doing so they will elevate the importance of how health factors can positively influence the education of students. Health education teachers have an opportunity to redefine their own role in schools where they contribute to shaping policy and become more involved in the decision-making system as it relates to health and obesity prevention. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10