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    Health, safety, and nutrition are interrelated for children's wellbeing and development. [1] Preventive health involves individual responsibility through healthy choices and shared responsibility to address social factors influencing community health. [2] Teachers promote children's health by establishing healthy behaviors, creating learning opportunities on preventive health, and collaborating with others. [3] Factors like environment, resources, knowledge, and behaviors influence children's nutrition, safety, and development, so teachers must consider these interdependencies.

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    Health, safety, and nutrition are interrelated for children's wellbeing and development. [1] Preventive health involves individual responsibility through healthy choices and shared responsibility to address social factors influencing community health. [2] Teachers promote children's health by establishing healthy behaviors, creating learning opportunities on preventive health, and collaborating with others. [3] Factors like environment, resources, knowledge, and behaviors influence children's nutrition, safety, and development, so teachers must consider these interdependencies.

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    Health, safety, and nutrition are interrelated for children's wellbeing and development. [1] Preventive health involves individual responsibility through healthy choices and shared responsibility to address social factors influencing community health. [2] Teachers promote children's health by establishing healthy behaviors, creating learning opportunities on preventive health, and collaborating with others. [3] Factors like environment, resources, knowledge, and behaviors influence children's nutrition, safety, and development, so teachers must consider these interdependencies.

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    JGV 210 - Week 2 THEME 1 Interrelationship

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    Health, safety, and nutrition are interrelated for children's wellbeing and development. [1] Preventive health involves individual responsibility through healthy choices and shared responsibility to address social factors influencing community health. [2] Teachers promote children's health by establishing healthy behaviors, creating learning opportunities on preventive health, and collaborating with others. [3] Factors like environment, resources, knowledge, and behaviors influence children's nutrition, safety, and development, so teachers must consider these interdependencies.

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    UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA

    FACULTY OF EDUCATION

    DEPARTMENT
    OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
    EDUCATION
    THEME 1

    HEALTH

    NUTRITION SAFETY
    •Describe how health, safety
    1. and nutrition are interrelated

    •Define the term preventive


    2. health

    •Discuss measures to promote


    3. children’s safety and nutrition
    DEFINITION:
    • Absence of illness
    • Physical, emotional, social,
    economic, cultural, mental
    wellbeing
    • Responsibility = individual +
    shared
    Traditional Preventive
    My My
    health/wellbeing is health/wellbeing is
    the responsibility my OWN
    of the medical responsibility
    profession
    (doctors, clinics,
    hospitals etc.)
    • The individual can reduce factors that
    threaten personal wellbeing/health
    Individual by:
    • Responsible choices and behaviour that
    responsibility improve quality of life and reduce the risk
    of illness.

    • Addressing social and environmental


    Shared factors that influence the collective
    quality of life of EVERYONE:
    responsibility • Poverty, homelessness, pollution, substance
    abuse, food insecurities….
    PREVENTIVE HEALTH BY THE
    INDIVIDUAL:
    • Establishing healthy behaviours
    • Diet, behaviour, early detection and treatment of illness

    IMPORTANCE FOR THE YOUNG CHILD?


    • Early exposure and the establishment of
    preventive behaviour that will lead to a healthy
    and productive life
    WHO?
    • Parents
    • Teachers
    PREVENTIVE HEALTH BY THE GOVERNMENT

    Immunisation

    Polio- and Measles immunisation programme Mass Immunisation campaign

    Integrated Food programme


    .
    Inspection of food supplies Fluoridation of water

    LoveLife HIV/Aids prevention

    Maternal, Neonatal and Child health and nutrition Strategic Plan

    Child oriented programme


    Child-to-child Health Every child a health activist UNICEF “Child Survival and Programme
    The teacher’s role in the promotion of health
    education
    Beliefs about teaching, learning, children and the purpose of learning

    Knowledge of relevant theory and research

    Knowledge and skills of what must be taught

    Sensitivity for the child’s point of view

    Help learners by story-telling, dictation

    Create opportunities to develop knowledge, skills and a positive


    attitude in terms of learning outcomes
    Qualities of a teacher to promote health education

    • Empathy and understanding


    • Effective listener and communicator
    • Honest
    • Respect
    • Interpersonal and communication skills
    • Collaborate with other role-players
    • Informed and proactive
    • Self confidence
    • Positive emotional wellbeing

    The health education teacher must create the context in which learning can take place and reach the
    outcomes that address the learners’ needs.
    The teacher must adapt to the preferences of the individual and learning situation and must be
    accessible and trustworthy. He/she must take ownership of his/her role.
    Factors that influence children’s health:

    Hereditary
    • Tall/short

    Disposition
    • Cancer, allergies

    Environment (Physical, psychological, social, economic, cultural


    • Impacts on the way we experience the environment and react to it (e.g.
    healthy diet, exercise, access to health care, clean environment,
    pollution, abuse…..)
    DEFINITION:
    • Behaviour/practices that
    protect children and adults
    against preventable injuries
    or risk.
    An accident is an unplanned occurrence that is
    caused by unsafe actions and unsafe conditions.

    Safety = to be relatively free from


    danger, risk, or threat of harm, injury
    or loss of property
    Factors that impact on children’s
    safety:
    Ignorance
    • Unaware of the skills and abilities typical to each developmental phase

    Limitation
    • Little to no opportunity for the mastering of personal safety

    Irresponsible behaviour
    • The safety of the young child is not taken seriously.

    Environment (Socio-economic):
    • Unaware of the child’s personal limitations and circumstances
    Qualities of the teacher to
    promote safety
    • Appropriate and relevant behaviour,
    skills and practices implemented to
    protect the young child from risk or
    preventable injury;
    • Application of such in their own lives.
    NUTRITION:
    • Refers to:
    • Food science, nutrients and the relation to health
    and illness
    • Process of ingesting, digesting, absorbing and
    transporting of nutrients, and the excretion of
    unused end products
    Nutrients are essential for :
    • Energy
    • Growth and development
    • Resistance to illness, infection
    • Tissue repair

    Nutrition is influenced by:


    • Finances
    • Culture
    • Transport
    • Knowledge of nutrients
    Terms associated with nutrition:

    Malnutrition
    • Prolonged inadequate or excessive intake of nutrients and/or calories
    required by the body
    Undernutrition
    • Too little nutrients is ingested

    Obesity
    • A condition characterised by an excessive accumulation of fat

    Inadequate nutrition
    • Poverty, unwise food choices, chronic health challenges
    INTERDEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP =
    • The status of one concept has a direct influence on the quality of
    the other
    • E.g.: children following a healthy diet:
    ✓ Reach their full growth potential,
    ✓ gain by early learning opportunities
    ✓ Tends to be less sick
    ✓ Has enough energy
    • Children following an unhealthy diet:
    ✓ Lack the basic nutrients (iron deficiency etc.)
    ✓ Fatigue
    ✓ Cannot focus or concentrate
    ✓ Delayed reaction = increased risk of accidents
    IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TEACHER:
    Children’s programmes must provide the following:

    ❑ PROTECTION
    ✓ Planning of the learning environment (inside and
    outside)
    ✓ Knowledge of polices and procedures
    ✓ Licensing
    ✓ Legal aspects
    ❑ SERVICES
    ✓ Basic prevention tests
    ✓ Referencing
    ✓ Appropriate community services

    ❑ TEACHING
    ✓ The integration of the concepts HEALTH, SAFETY
    AND NUTRITION in everyday learning
    FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

    ✓ The skilled foundation phase teacher promotes the physical and


    mental health as well as appropriate nutrition of the young child
    ✓ He/she provides an emotional and physical environment for young
    children in collaboration with their families
    ✓ Knowledge of health, safety and nutrition is the basis for
    development and learning. Good nutrition is important to promote the
    overall development of young children.
    ✓ Regular and healthy meals encourage a good attitude towards
    nutrition and eating habits.
    ✓ A safe environment prevents and reduces injuries for young children
    and teaches them to recognise and manage dangerous situations.

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