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PRINCIPLES AND PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
- Philosophy of Physical Education
- Physical education ideologies
- Recreation
- Intramural and Extramural activities And tournament
- Traditional sports in West Africa
- Greek Festivals and The Olympic Games
HEALTH EDUCATION
- A. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION
- 1. Meaning and setting for health Education.
- B. HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
- 1. Cells and tissues of Human Body.
- (d) Growth and development
- 2. Sense Organs
- 3. Systems of the Body
- (b) Circulatory System
- (c) Digestive system
- (d) Excretory System
- (e) Respiratory System
- (f) Nervous System:
- (g) Endocrine System:
- (h) Homeostasis
- 4. Posture and Postural Defects.
- C. PERSONAL HEALTH
- 1. Meaning and importance of physical health.
- 2. Personal hygiene
- 3. Promotion and maintenance of health:
- 4. Health Screening
- 5. Dental health education
- D. COMMUNITY HEALTH
- 1. Community health services
- 2. School health programme
- 3. Family health
- 4. Ageing and death education
- 5. Epidemiology and vital statistics
- E. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
- 1. Housing.
- 2. Water supply
- 3. Waste disposal
- 4. Pollution
- (C) Industrial occupation
- (D) Pests and vectors control
- F. NUTRITION AND FOOD NUTRIENTS
- Nutrition
- 2. Balanced/adequate diets
- 3. Factors influencing feeding habits/choice of foods
- 4. Water
- 5. Nutritional processes: ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation and metabolism and defecation/ejection.
- 6. Beverages
- 7. Diet for different group of people: children, male adolescent; female adolescent; athletes; pregnant woman; adult and aged.
- 8. Food hygiene, preservation and storage
- G. SAFETY EDUCATION AND FIRST AID
- 1. First Aid
- (e) Disaster
- (f) Accident
- (g) Disability and rehabilitation
- H. DRUG, ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO EDUCATION
- 1. Drug Education
- 2. Behaviour altering chemicals
- I. COMMUNICABLE AND NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
- 1. Diseases
- 2. Communicable diseases
- (c) Factors necessary for communicable diseases to occur:
- (d) Non-communicable diseases:
- J. FAMILY LIFE AND HUMAN SEXUALITY EDUCATION
- 1. Human Reproduction
- 2. Human Sexuality Education
- 3. Family and family member roles.
- 4. Family life challenges: widowhood; single parenthood, pre-marital and extra-marital affairs, in-laws etc.
- 5. Family planning and safe motherhood.
- 5. Population Education
- K. EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL HEALTH
- 1. Interrelationship
- 2. Attributes:
- 3. Mental health:
- L. CONSUMER HEALTH EDUCATION
- 1. Consumer health products and services
- 2. Laws protecting the consumer
- 3. Factors influencing choice of consumer products; Authencity; cost; availability; accessibility; availability and advertisement.
- 4. Consumer health care services
- 5. Quacks and quackery meaning and types
- 6. Health insurance and advertisement of health products and services
- 7. Nostrum:
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SPORTS COMPETITIONS
- Sports Championship at national level
- Types of championship
- Institutional sports
- The All African Games
- International Competitions
BASIC HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY IN RELATION TO PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
- Skeletal System
- Nervous System
- Circulatory System
- Respiratory System
- Skeletal muscles
- Somatotype
- Posture
PRACTICE OF ATHLETICS, GAMES AND DANCE
- Athletics (Track and Field Events)
- Games
- Racket games
- Traditional dances
PHYSICAL FITNESS AND CONDITIONING
- Physical fitness
- Health and Personal hygiene
NUTRITION, DRUG AND SPORTS
- Nutrition
- Drug in sports
- Sports injuries
- Corrective and adapted physical education programme
SPORTS ADMINISTRATION
- Administrative structure/functions of sports at national, regional/state and local government level.
- Administrative structure/function of sports at institution level

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