Williams C L, Wynder E L
Postgrad Med J. 1978 Mar;54(629):212-4. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.54.629.212.
Motivating children to reduce risk for future disease can only be effective within a framework of personal involvement and peer interaction. The 'Know Your Body' programme of disease prevention is attempting to achieve this goal by means of medical screening for risk factors, giving students their own results in a 'Health Passport', and following up with educational activities integrated into existing school curricula. Didactic teaching alone has been unsuccessful because children cannot relate information about diseases in adult life to themselves. Screening for risk factors provides the 'reality factor' which makes health education pertinent and personal, since approximately half of all students screened will already have one or more risk factors for heart disease, cancer or stroke. This high prevalence of risk factors among our children suggests that chronic-disease prevention must assume a critically important position within the health and science curricula of every school. It is as important to teach our children healthy ways of living as it is to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic.
激励孩子们降低未来患病风险，只有在个人参与和同伴互动的框架内才会有效。“了解你的身体”疾病预防计划正试图通过对风险因素进行医学筛查、在“健康护照”中向学生提供他们自己的结果，并跟进融入现有学校课程的教育活动来实现这一目标。仅靠说教式教学是不成功的，因为孩子们无法将成人生活中有关疾病的信息与自己联系起来。对风险因素进行筛查提供了“现实因素”，这使得健康教育具有针对性和个性化，因为大约一半接受筛查的学生已经有一个或多个心脏病、癌症或中风的风险因素。我们孩子中这种高风险因素患病率表明，慢性病预防必须在每所学校的健康和科学课程中占据至关重要的地位。教导我们的孩子健康的生活方式与教授阅读、写作和算术同样重要。
