Includes index.

Contents: Comprehensive school health education: A Nation at risk: The Need for comprehensive school health education -- School health services: promoting and protecting student health -- A Healthful and safe school environment: protecting the health and safety of students, faculty, and staff -- The Comprehensive school health education curriculum: a blueprint for implementing the national health education standards -- Instructional strategies and technologies: motivating students to learn -- Health content: Mental and emotional health -- Family and social health -- Growth and development -- Nutrition -- Personal health and physical activity -- Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs -- Communicable and chronic diseases -- Consumer and community -- Environmental health -- Injury prevention and safety -- Totally awesome: Teaching strategies: Using the totally awesome teaching strategies -- The Meeks heit K-12 health education curriculum guide: a model for implementing the national health education standards: Using the meeks heit K-12 health education curriculum guide -- Appendix A: National health education standards: teaching masters -- Appendix B: Selected healthy people 2010 objectives that relate to schools and school-age youth -- Appendix C: The teacher's encyclopedic guide for health concerns of schools-age youth from A to Z -- Appendix: Health resources.