Contributing Towards “Clean And Green Pakistan” Through Health Awareness Activities Elementary School Education: Teachers’ Perspectives

Abstract

Pakistan is focusing on and striving extremely hard to ensure necessary measures for the development and awareness about these parameters. Lack of awareness, poor diet, water pollution and hygiene problems are the main health issues that lead us to communicable and non-communicable diseases. Despite improvement in the basic health issues and nutrition over time, the state of health is very miserable. Young children are open to the risks of various infections and diseases. It is the responsibility of the school to make students aware about healthy and hygienic behavior. The students need to take it as their first and foremost duty to guide the students and inspire them to adopt fruitful health practices. Therefore, this study had been planned to see the level of health awareness in elementary schools of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Survey research had been conducted. Through random sampling, male and female elementary level students at public schools had been selected who were studying in class 8 in the year 2022-23. 600 Male and female elementary teachers had been selected randomly who had taught class 8 students in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Some recommendations were made for the teachers of Science subjects at elementary school to improve the teaching methodology in a way that they may involve Health awareness activities to focus on students' health awareness. It was also recommended that the refresher courses for science teachers may be organized to nurture them in holding such activities.