School Health and Sexuality Education

ABSTRACT

This paper addresses the issue of adolescent sexuality education as one component of school health education. Health education is a key element in comprehensive health care. The purpose of school health education is to develop the motivation and skills required by students to cope with challenges to health and to build the foundation of knowledge required to comprehend the further health learning scheduled for their future. Same principle applies to sexuality education. Today's sexuality education is about the facts of living, and that education continues throughout the life cycle. Sexuality education is a life-long process. Also knowledge and information about sexuality and family planning are essential for everyone. By sexuality education, young students would realize that each sexual decision has an effect or consequence and sexual decisions should support the dignity, equality and worth of each individual and they should take into account the medical, psychological and social effects of sexual activity and concept of sexuality. Values of sexuality education are thoroughly investigated. Furthermore, several models including online and offline services of sexuality education which would be performed by physicians are suggested and discussed in this paper.