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WAEC WASSCE course

Health Education

WAEC WASSCE

239 topics sit in this course for WAEC WASSCE.

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Eye Defects and their Corrections
Myopia, Hypermetropia, Astigmatism, Presbyopia, Squints (cross eye), including vision screening with Snellen chart and roles of eye specialists.
Meaning and Importance of Human Sexuality Education
Includes the meaning of sexuality, sexuality education, sexual reproductive health rights, gender, and equality.
Definition of Terms
Reproduction, sex gametes, ovulation, menstruation, fertilization, pregnancy, and gestation. Includes secondary sexual characteristics, menstrual cycle, sex determination, antenatal care, causes of infertility, artificial insemination, and test tube babies.
Terminologies in Drug Education
Includes drug abuse, drug dependence, drug misuse, drug addiction, self-medication, alcoholism, and rehabilitation.
Meaning and Principles of Food Hygiene
Includes food handling, cleanliness of cooking utensils and surroundings, and effects of poor food handling.

Classes, Sources, and Functions of Food Nutrients

Includes tests for starch, simple and complex sugars, proteins, and fats, with local examples of sources.

Types of Cells

Somatic cells and sex cells, including the structure and functions of a typical animal cell.

Types and Effects of Beverages

Negative and positive effects, and nutritional value of non-alcoholic beverages.

Components of School Health Programme

Skill-based health education, healthful school environment (physical and biological), school feeding services, school health and nutrition services, and school, home, and community relationship.

Different Aspects of Family Health: Maternal and Child Health

Includes antenatal care, immunization, oral rehydration therapy (ORT), breast feeding, and safe motherhood.

Providers of Community Health Services

Orthodox services (e.g., primary health care) and traditional services (e.g., bone setters, birth attendants), including their advantages and disadvantages.

Human Anatomy and Physiology

This module covers the fundamental structures and functions of the human body, from cellular level to complex systems, including sensory organs and bodily processes.

Components of a Standard House

Effects of poor sanitation, pest infestation, and substandard housing on health.

Components of Vital Statistics

Birth rate, mortality rate, and morbidity rate, emphasizing the importance and use of health records.

Health Education Settings

Includes home-based, school-based, community-based, health facility-based, and work place-based programs and services.

Auditory Defects

Includes conductive impairment (e.g., Otitis media), neurosensory impairment, and screening methods like tuning fork and audiometer.

Characteristics of Correct Posture

Related to sitting, standing, walking, and lifting; roles of nutrition and exercise.

Specific Emergency Conditions

Cuts, wounds, bleeding, dislocation, fractures, burns, scalds, shocks, asphyxia/suffocation, poisoning.

Nutritional Problems

Caloric needs in relation to age, occupation, and health condition, emphasizing food deficiency diseases.

Cell Differentiation

Formation of tissues, organs, and systems, with mention of epithelial, connective, and muscular tissues.

Air-borne/Respiratory Diseases

Common cold, measles, whooping cough, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, cerebro-spinal meningitis, diphtheria.

Methods of Food Preservation

Smoking/drying/dehydration, freezing/refrigeration, addition of chemicals/sugar/salts, bottling/pickling/canning.

Linkages for Promotion (Initiatives)

Health Promoting School (HPS), Child-Friendly School (CFS), Focusing Resources on Effective Schools Health (FRESH), Life Skills (LS), and Education for All (EFA).

Joints: Structures and Types

Emphasis on synovial joints, location of different types, and illustration of lever classes.

Types of Postural Defects

Flat foot, scoliosis, kyphosis, and lordosis, including causes and the roles of orthopaedic hospitals and physiotherapy.

Structures and Types of Muscle Tissues

Discussion of the three different types of muscles in relation to their functions.

Worm Infections

Ascarislumbricoides (round worm), Taeniasolium (tape worm), Ancylostomaduodenale (Hook worm), Dracunculusmedinensis (Guinea worm).

Personal Health

This module focuses on individual health practices and maintenance, including hygiene, health screenings, and dental health.

Contact Diseases

Gonorrhoea, syphilis, Tineapedis (athlete/foot), Taeniacapitis (ringworm), leprosy, scabies, and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

Blood and Lymph Vessels Structure and Functions

Includes counting pulse rate, observing capillaries, and the importance of lymph nodes.

Diseases due to Growth in Cells, Heredity and Disorders

Cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, haemophilia, heart disease, hypertension, ulcer, mental illness, sickle cell, rheumatism, infertility, asthma, albinism.

Diseases and Disorders of the Circulatory System

Sickle cell anaemia, leukaemia, haemophilia, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, coronary thrombosis, and stroke, including hereditary aspects and prevention.

Community Health

This module explores health services, programs, and demographics at community, school, and family levels, alongside aspects of ageing and death.

Organs of the Digestive System and their Functions

Examination of the alimentary canal of a dissected mammal and accessory organs of digestion.

Absorption, Assimilation, and Metabolism

Includes tissue respiration, osmosis, diffusion, and the importance of proper eating habits.

Environmental Health

This module focuses on the interaction between human health and the environment, covering housing, water, waste, pollution, industrial occupations, and pest control.

Process of Urine Formation

Reference to excretory functions of the lungs and the use of dialysis machine for kidney failure.

Respiratory System

Examines the structure, functions, and processes of respiration, as well as related disorders.

Process of Respiration

Includes mechanism of breathing, gaseous exchange (total, complemental, and residual air), and tissue/cellular respiration.

Nutrition and Food Nutrients

This module covers food components, balanced diets, feeding habits, nutritional processes, and food hygiene for various population groups.

Endocrine System

Location of endocrine glands, hormones produced, and their functions, emphasizing effects of over- and under-secretion.

Nutritional Processes

Ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, metabolism, and defecation/ejection.

Homeostasis

Physiological factors affecting homeostasis, including body temperature, blood sugar level, water balance, electrolytes balance, pH, and blood pressure.

Diet for Different Groups of People

Children, male adolescents, female adolescents, athletes, pregnant women, adults, and the aged.

Safety Education and First Aid

This module provides essential knowledge and skills for accident prevention, emergency response, and handling specific first aid conditions.

Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Education

This module covers the terminologies, consequences, and prevention related to drug, alcohol, and tobacco use and misuse.

Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases

This module defines and classifies various diseases, exploring their causes, transmission, and preventive factors.

Family Life and Human Sexuality Education

This module covers human reproduction, sexuality, family dynamics, challenges, planning, and population education.

Emotional and Social Health

This module explores the interrelationship between emotional and social well-being, focusing on personality, mental health, and their importance.

Consumer Health Education

This module educates on consumer health products and services, related laws, influencing factors, and the dangers of quackery and nostrums.

Consumer Health Products and Services

Importance of checking labels and expiry dates, various agencies promoting consumer health, and features of genuine products and services.

Quacks and Quackery

Meaning and types of quackery such as mechanical, electrical, drug, cosmetic, and medical quackery, highlighting their dangers.