Year 13 Health Education (Level 3)

Students will study Health Education concepts relating to a range of different contexts relating to real world issues facing teenagers. 

They will:

• Analyse a New Zealand health issue using the determinants of health and devise strategies to help teenagers manage these and the implications on wellbeing. Possible topics include mental health, resilience, and wellbeing. 
• Evaluate health practices used in New Zealand using different ways they are used to treat or manage health conditions. Topics include mental illness, pain management, addiction, disease/illness. 
• Analyse an ethical issue in relation to wellbeing. Short term and long-term implications.
• Analyse an international health issue – external assessment with possible topics including Disease, Culture, drug use, globalisation, and health.