Chapter 1: Interrelationship
of Health, Safety and
Nutrition
Chapter 2: Promoting Good
Health
Chapter 1 & 2 Topics
• Chapter 1: The Interrelationship between
Health, Safety and Nutrition
– Factors affecting health, safety and nutrition
– The teacher’s role
• Chapter 2: Promoting Good Health
– Health Promotion
– Areas of Health to Consider
– Health Topics to Teach
Factors Affecting Health
Culture
Knowledge
Nutrition
Socio-Economic
Status
Health
Environment
and Life Style
Factors Affecting Safety
Culture
Knowledge
Nutrition
Socio-Economic
Status
Health
Environment
and Life Style
Factors Affecting Nutrition
Culture
Knowledge
Health
Socio-Economic
Status
Safety
Environment
and Life Style
What is the Interrelationship
between Health,
Safety and Nutrition?
• Healthy People 2010
– Identifies and provides information to prevent health
problems and encourages collaboration
• National Health and Safety Performance Standards for
Child Care
– Provides detailed quality standards and procedures for
children in organized care environments
• Healthy Child Care America
– Improves quality of educational programs, early care, and
coordinates health care professionals with early education
professionals
Health Promotion
• Recall when someone gave you a healthy
message
• Recall when you noticed a role model for
making healthy choices.
• Recall when you encouraged someone to make
a healthier choice.
• Recall when you made a new healthy choice.
• … so what is health promotion?
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Protect children from harm
Teach basic skills for life
Follow licensing and legal regulations
Collaborate with parents
Have current information and resources
Offer training and resources to parents
Model healthy choices to children and parents
Teach the Basic Life Skills
to Children and Parents
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Physical Health
Mental Health
Social Health
Emotional Health
Physical Health
• Teach children
– Stay with your adult
– Use your body safely
– Be kind to other people’s bodies
• Teach parents
– Child depends on you for physical safety
– Child proof the environment, use car seats
– Protect your child from harm at all times
Emotional Health
• Teach Children
– To label, share and discuss their feelings
– To say “no”
– To ask for help
• Teach Parents
– To respond to child’s thinking and questions
– To explain actions as needed
– To seek help if they are overwhelmed
Social Health
• Teach Children
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How to make friends
How to be friendly
How to take turns and share
Identify when they need alone time
• Teach Parents
– Making and maintaining healthy relationships
– Maintaining social stability in the home
– Supporting healthy friendships between childhood
friends
Mental Health
• Teach Children
– To identify problems and seek solutions
– To cooperate with others
– To build strong relationships with other adults
• Teach Parents
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Be caring and responsive
Give consistent, age-appropriate discipline
Demonstrate resilient behaviors
Give encouragement more than criticism
What To Teach Each Age and Stage
Physical
Health
Infants
Toddlers
Preschool
Children
Mental
Health
Social
Health
Resilient
Children