Time for comprehensive health education in schools

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The need for comprehensive health education in schools: From September 2020, the UK school curriculum adapted the way that it teaches sex education.  Sex and relationships education (SRE) was replaced by compulsory relationships and sex education (RSE). The adopted changes were developed to meet a growing need for young people to sufficiently understand and develop […]

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The importance of health literacy

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On World Health Day, 7th April 2022, Beth Cooper discusses the Importance of health literacy for the Hippocratic Post. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, personal health literacy is ‘the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for […]

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