ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the interface between school and community to assist in the identification of policies, strategies and methods likely to achieve better planned and coordinated health education through the priorities recommended in the book. It examines the nature of the constraints confronting those who would promote school-community interaction in school health education. The book then examines the special contribution of professional training, initial and in-service, to the progress of school health education. It also sets out a record of post-1981 developments in the United Kingdom, because of the widespread interest displayed in the new directions being taken there. Within health education generally the greatest concentration of activity has been in school health education where a guaranteed audience is provided over an average ten-year period of compulsory attendance.
