Bridging the Gap Between School Health and Public Health

Bottlenecks in health education.

“…Some of our deep-seated problems are far too complex for organizations and other groups to tackle them alone. We need more cooperative leadership and a better organized attack on crucial problems such as: the recruitment, preparation, and placement of health educators; the development of integrated community-school health education demonstration programs; gaining stronger community and administrative support for scheduling modernized health science spiral curricula in our schools; securing funds for interdisciplinary research18"19; lobbying more effectively for needed federal legislation-such as revision of the National Defense Education Act to include provision for health education; securing high-level sponsorship and funds (1) for scholarships and traineeships, (2) for projects such as a national health science spiral curriculum improvement project, and (3) …”