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ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH IN SCHOOLS

Subramaniam, N., Dr. V. Madha Suresh & Dr. T. Vasantha Kumaran “Environment And Health In Schools” in Martin J. Bunch, V. Madha Suresh and T. Vasantha Kumaran, eds., Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Environment and Health, Chennai, India, 15-17 December, 2003. Chennai: Department of Geography, University of Madras and Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Pages 520 – 521.

Abstract:

Any child that is born on this earth faces the environment as and when it is born. There is none on this earth who can say that he or she has no connection with the environment. If we want to bring in the desired change in our standard of health we ought to make of lot more changes in the curriculum to improve the Environment and sanitation. It is high time that the children in society should be told the measures that they should take to protect the environment. For healthy living in the future it is necessary that steps should be taken to improve the environment, for which the teacher and text books should provide scope to the children in the school. Decades together of effort to bring in these changes will certainly do a great deal better.

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