TY - BOOK
T1 - Developing Health Literacy Through School Based Health Education: Can Reality Match Rhetoric?
AU - McCuaig, Louise
AU - Corre, Sally
AU - Carroll, Kristie
AU - Macdonald, Doune
AU - Rossi, Tony
AU - Bush, Robert
AU - Ostini, Remo
AU - Hay, Peter
AU - Johnson, Rebecca
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Recently in Australia, the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (2009) and National Preventative Health Taskforce (2009) recommended that one way to strengthen consumer engagement within a health system is to ensure health literacy comprise a core element of the National Curriculum for primary and secondary schooling. However, whilst nationally and internationally schools are mandated to teach health education, there is considerable disjuncture between societies’ broad expectations and schools’ capacities to deliver programs that promote healthy living (Marks, 2010; Basch, 2010). Given the centrality of literacy education in contemporary schooling (Snyder, 2008), ‘health literacy’ has been identified as a construct that offers the potential to close this perceived gap (McCuaig, Coore & Hay, 2012; Kickbusch, 2001). To date, there has been limited research as to what a health literacy focused, school based health education curriculum could look like.
AB - Recently in Australia, the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (2009) and National Preventative Health Taskforce (2009) recommended that one way to strengthen consumer engagement within a health system is to ensure health literacy comprise a core element of the National Curriculum for primary and secondary schooling. However, whilst nationally and internationally schools are mandated to teach health education, there is considerable disjuncture between societies’ broad expectations and schools’ capacities to deliver programs that promote healthy living (Marks, 2010; Basch, 2010). Given the centrality of literacy education in contemporary schooling (Snyder, 2008), ‘health literacy’ has been identified as a construct that offers the potential to close this perceived gap (McCuaig, Coore & Hay, 2012; Kickbusch, 2001). To date, there has been limited research as to what a health literacy focused, school based health education curriculum could look like.
KW - health literacy
KW - health education
KW - schools
KW - Australia
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:45893
UR - http://eprints.qut.edu.au/82414/7/82414%28whole%29.pdf
M3 - Research report
BT - Developing Health Literacy Through School Based Health Education: Can Reality Match Rhetoric?
PB - University of Queensland
CY - St. Lucia, Qld.
ER -