Health and Wellbeing in Education

 Why schools and Universities need to teach more about Health:

 

1. Everyone suffers from health conditions, and our wellbeing affects every day of our lives, yet we barely learn about it

 

2. Most of us do not know enough about health to properly manage our behaviour for better health

 

3. Most of us are not ready to deal with health emergencies of our own or people around us

 

4. Most of us are afraid or embarrassed of sharing medical or psychological concerns, or even to search them online because of fear of being tracked. That leads to a dangerous ignorance and lack of capacity to detect early, prevent or properly treat many medical conditions

 

5. Mental health is extremely relevant and we are not taught about human psychology, how to manage stress, anxiety and human emotions. It is not (only) about mental illnesses or disorders, is about helping individuals to manage mind related issues that affect every human being to have better lives and societies

 

6. Safety, protection against agressions, anti bullying strategies, violence monitoring, are all extremely important areas with a great potential of benefiting societies but people barely get to

know about it

 

I believe we should consider including wellbeing as one of the main pillars during the entire education process

 

1) Include a continuous health subject with elements like

* Health management * Symptoms * Nutrition * Psychology * Mental health

 

2. Emergency trainings

 

3. Drugs and medicines (What are the most commonly needed drugs for which cases, myths, relevant information, risks, doses, advantages)

 

4. Health monitoring, health counsellor, AI chatbot + Human support for questions and answers for risks early detection and proper health management

 

5. Healthtech (Software, tools, resources, devices available, how to use them)