Health promotion is the process of empowering individuals to take control of and to improve their health (World Health Organization, 2017). Early interventions are crucial in disease prevention and health protection since negative behaviours often developed during childhood (Stanhope, Lancaster, Jakubec, & Pike-MacDonald, 2017a). Also, health promotion is relevant to students as academic success is dependent on health (Rossman, Dood, & Squires, 2012). This paper describes an upcoming health promotion presentation to students in grade five elementary school class at Camrose, Alberta (Alberta Education, 2015). The topic’s objective is for students to understand the “impact of physical activity, nutrition, rest, and immunization on the immune system” (Alberta Education, 2002, p365).
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Alberta Education's Wellness curriculum is a component of comprehensive school health program that provides students with the knowledge, skills, and attitude necessary to develop long-term healthy lifestyle (Alberta Education, 2015). As a nursing student in community health practicum, I was invited by a grade five school teacher to present healthy habits that foster effective immune system. Presentation on …show more content…
(2016) found health promotion teaching in school to fourth-grade elementary school students in South Korea are efficient and cost-effective. The use of healthcare professional to educate on health supports the five core principles of primary health care: school-age students will have access to educational experts that delivers health promoting teaching through collaboration with health service. In addition, health presentation contributes a positive development of individual student's determinants of health in education and personal health practices through creating health-informed children with practices that promote perseverance of health and reduce risk factors for