Health News Review<\/a> to social studies curricula, and you\u2019ve got a recipe for creating critical thinkers that would be hard to beat.<\/p>\nSocial media has a place in the high school e-patient-building curriculum, too. Using news stories from sports, pop culture and politics, students could dig into how body image impacts health, cultural norms that either encourage or inhibit healthy living, and how to talk about tough topics like drugs, drinking, tobacco, and sexuality with their parents and their peers.<\/p>\n
For those of you saying \u201cBut there\u2019s already too much in the curriculum. There\u2019s no room for this stuff,\u201d I hear you, but I don\u2019t buy that argument. I spoke to Eva Colen, an education advocacy fellow whose expertise is in policy and system design, about adding health literacy to the K-12 curriculum. She said, \u201cFinancial literacy is already making its way into high school graduation requirements. I see this as part of a key life skills syllabus that includes financial literacy, civics, and health systems literacy. It\u2019s the job of the education system to make sure baby humans get the knowledge they need to become functioning members of society. Navigating social systems, like the health care system, is a critical life skill.\u201d<\/p>\n
In health care, personalized medicine is becoming an expectation. Eva told me that personalized learning is the hot new thing in education circles, with programs like Education Reimagined mirroring in education the goals for patient-empowered health care envisioned by the Society for Participatory Medicine. What if we accelerated the full adoption of both by embedding health and health system literacy into K-12 curricula across America? I think this is a public conversation worth having.<\/p>\n
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Everything You Need to Know About Health Literacy, You Learned in Kindergarten - Society for Participatory Medicine<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n