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PART Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture

Health education in schools is provided not only through various services for school health, school safety and school lunch, but also through classroom teaching in different school subjects including Health & Physical Education, Homemaking and Science, as well as through Moral Education and extracurricular Special Activities. With a view to promoting health education on an integral and overall basis, it will be necessary to secure close linkage among various school programs related to health education in different subjects and other school activities, and also to carry out these school programs in cooperation with homes and communities where pupils are living. To help meet this necessity, the Ministry has been carrying out various services, including: the designation of a number of pilot schools conducting studies on health education; the preparation of teachers' guides on health education; and the organization of nation-wide meetings of educators on studies of health education.

Further, the Ministry has been endeavoring to effectively carry out various measures for the positive promotion of children's physical and mental health, placing emphasis on the following measures: the enrichment of teaching in schools about mental health. Smoking, drinking and drug abuse, and of counseling services in school health rooms; the enrichment of traffic safety education in schools concerning two-wheeled vehicles; and the development of the desirable eating habits of children through school lunch programs in cooperation with the home and the community, as well as the improvement of the environment affecting children's eating habits.