This article includes information to help students understand the importance of safety measures when playing outside.
This video encourages students to be physically active every day.
This article discusses how Hepatitis B is common worldwide, especially in many parts of Asia and the Pacific Islands.
Do you know where nasty things like bacteria and fungi may be hiding? C'mon in to the locker room to see what's lurking under foot and behind closed doors. This resource provides students with information on preventing disease.
This article discusses the program that assisted the state of North Carolina with keeping tobacco out of their schools.
In this lesson, students will identify, analyze, and interpret patterns in data related to a public health emergency, investigate and plan a public health emergency response to a natural disaster, and determine ways to prepare for public health emergencies.
Bullying, particularly among school-age children, is a major public health problem. This compendium provides researchers, prevention specialists, and health educators with tools to measure a range of bullying experiences: bully perpetration, bully victimization, bully-victim experiences, and bystander experiences. Some researchers continue to examine the risk and protective factors associated with bullying experiences. Others are working to design, implement, and evaluate bully prevention interventions aimed at reducing bully victimization and perpetration, as well as increasing prosocial bystander involvement in bullying situations. The ability to measure bullying experiences broadly and completely is crucial to the success of these activities. This compendium represents a starting point from which researchers can consider a set of psychometrically-sound measures for assessing self-reported incidence and prevalence of a variety of bullying experiences.
This resource provides some ways to understand and measure the intensity of aerobic activity: relative intensity and absolute intensity.
In this activity, students will learn how rapidly Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria reproduce. They will also see how environmental conditions such as temperature can affect the reproduction rate of E. coli. They will figure out how they might disrupt the environment that allows E. coli to reproduce, thus reducing the spread of infection.
This resource provides information on the National Tobacco Control Program. It also includes an interactive resource map of each state, which supplies information on what each state across the country is doing concerning the use of tobacco.
This article discusses how the HPV vaccine may be helping lower HPV infection rates in teen girls.
In this case study, students will analyze data and information about the outbreak as if it were happening in real time. They will use this information to make decisions about how to effectively monitor and respond to an enterovirus D-69 (EV-D68) outbreak. Students will classify increases in numbers of persons with EV-D68 as a cluster, outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic to help justify planning decisions for conducting a field investigation. Students will apply a case definition to collect data needed to characterize an outbreak by using correct graphs and tables. Oral and written communication skills will be used to communicate findings to the public.
This resource provides information on how to reduce risk of getting cancer in a variety of ways, including keeping a healthy weight, avoiding tobacco, limiting the amount of alcohol you drink, and protecting skin from the sun.
This video discusses how our cultures can influence our health. This resource provides an emphasis on American Indian culture and the rise of diabetes among American Indians.
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) refers to infection of the uterus (womb), fallopian tubes (tubes that carry eggs from the ovaries to the uterus) and other reproductive organs that causes symptoms such as lower abdominal pain. It is a serious complication of some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), especially chlamydia and gonorrhea.
In this lesson, students explore the health benefits and risks involved in pet ownership and interaction. Zoonoses will be introduced, and students will examine the safety of their interactions with household pets.
This resource provides tips on how to maintain a healthy weight by being active.
This video helps teach the value of eating a variety of colorful and healthy foods.
This article provides information on preventing child abuse.
This 20-page, easy-to-read illustrated booklet discusses the major content of the 2012 Surgeon General's report in plain language. It is designed to help parents, teachers, policy makers, health care professionals, and other concerned adults understand the importance of the report and how they can take a stand to protect young people from the devastating effects of tobacco use.