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Article: School physical education.
- Article from:
- Journal of School Health
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
- Author:
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In recent years, public health officials increasingly have recognized the role of school physical education in public health initiatives to promote child and adult health.(1,2) This partnership between those responsible for school physical education and public health, however, is not a recent phenomenon. Shattuck's 1850 report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts(3) outlined a plan for improving public health which included physical training in schools. Since then, the emphasis of school physical education has expanded from physical training and calisthenics, to performance-related fitness and the development of competitive sports skills, to health-related fitness and ...