Healthy long-term attitudes on personal health can be developed in school-age children.

Since the current decade is often called the 'golden age' of health care, it is logical to ensure that children are not summarily excluded from the many benefits that can be derived from today's new understanding of disease and its prevention. By basing early health education upon a child's own well-defined concept of illness, the patient-provider interaction is improved in the short-run and superior long-term attitudes on overall health care are encouraged. HealthPACT is a health education program tailored specifically for school children that teaches them, and members of other well-defined groups, how to become active participants in their current, and future, health care matters.