Burns E Robert
Department of Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
J Cancer Educ. 2012 Mar;27(1):179-85. doi: 10.1007/s13187-011-0274-3.
Prevention of the initiation of tobacco use, which is associated with increased risk of developing cancer of the lung, the oral cavity, larynx, and emphysema, should target middle school-age children because that is where experimentation with tobacco use usually begins. Millions of children attending school do not receive proper education regarding the biological science of the human respiratory system coupled with the impact that tobacco use has at the cell, tissue, and organ levels of biological organization because their teachers are ill-prepared and ill-equipped to teach this normal and cancer-related content. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has a statewide outreach program that provides middle school teachers training in a "Healthy Lungs" curriculum that covers the normal functional anatomy of the respiratory system as a basis for adding the effect of tobacco use and its associated cancers and emphysema. This training also provides each participant a resource kit of supplies, materials, and items of equipment. A long-term implementation survey identified a high degree of transference of content and use of the resource kit items into new classroom learning activities for the trainee's students for both the normal functional anatomy of the human respiratory system and associated general and cell/tissue/organ-specific cancer biology.
预防开始使用烟草（这与患肺癌、口腔癌、喉癌和肺气肿的风险增加有关）应将目标对准中学年龄段的儿童，因为对烟草的尝试通常从这个阶段开始。数百万上学的儿童没有接受关于人类呼吸系统生物学知识以及烟草使用在生物组织的细胞、组织和器官层面所产生影响的适当教育，原因是他们的教师没有充分准备且缺乏教学所需设备来教授这一正常以及与癌症相关的内容。阿肯色大学医学院开展了一项全州范围的推广项目，为中学教师提供“健康肺部”课程培训，该课程涵盖呼吸系统的正常功能解剖学知识，以此为基础来讲解烟草使用的影响及其相关癌症和肺气肿。这项培训还为每位参与者提供一套包含用品、材料和设备的资源包。一项长期实施调查表明，对于人类呼吸系统的正常功能解剖学以及相关的一般癌症生物学和细胞/组织/器官特异性癌症生物学知识，培训内容和资源包中的物品在很大程度上被传授给了学员的学生，并应用于新的课堂学习活动中。
