STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NATUROPATHY PROGRAMME DESIGNED TO IMPART HEALTH EDUCATION FOR SECONDARY STUDENTS

In 21st Century there is variety of media and internet available to school children, at their fingertips, but at the same time health of school children is a great cause of concern. Therefore health education is an important area identified in the National Curriculum Framework. Again if the school teacher specially teaching health education subject becomes aware about health education and if necessary skills are developed among them then and then only the school teachers can transmit this knowledge and skills to the school children. Secondary school students are facing lot of health related problems due to which they are lacking in their studies also. School going children can have little knowledge about nature oriented methods through which they can easily overcome on their health problems. Therefore an attempt was made to develop a special naturopathy programme to impart health education for secondary students and also to study its effectiveness. A 15 days special programme of health education was designed for this purpose. The students of Vitthalrao Shivarkar Secondary School, Pune were the sample. The results revealed that the naturopathy programme developed to impart Health Education is beneficial to create awareness about improvement of mind concentration, healthy eating habits, social health, and also maintaining General Health.