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Some Suggested Visual Aids
Films: "To Your Health" Sound, Colour, Runs 10 minutes from:
Central Film Library, Government Building, Bromyard Avenue,
W.3.
OR "Alcohol and the Human Body" Sound, Black and White, Runs
15 minutes, from: Rank Film Library, 1, Aintree Road, Perivale,
Greenford, Middlesex,
OR "Drugs and the Nervous System" Sound, Colour, Runs 18
minutes, from: Boulton-Hawker Films Ltd., Hadleigh, Ipswich,
Suffolk.
Themes for Follow-up Discussion
(a) Discuss different types of dependence throughout history.
(History, English literature)
(b) What is black market?
(History, Social studies)
(c) Investiage the effect of caffeine (by drinking strong coffee) on
such things as pulse rate and mental alertness e.g. as measured by
the time taken to add up a column of figures.
(Mathematics, Biology. Science)
(d) Are patent medicines really necessary? Collect advertisements of
patent medicines and drugs and try to find out which part of the
body they will affect.
Which are in common use by the pupils themselves or their families?
(Biology. Science)
(e) How do mature people cope with their problems?
Are drugs and alcohol really necessary?
(Religious instruction. English
literature. History)
UNIT 11 The Health Services
(a) General Structure.
(b) The prevention of disease and health education.
(c) How the individual can use the services properly.
N.B. It is suggested that schools invite a member of the Public Health
Department to give this talk.
Some Suggested Visual Aids
Films: "Your Very Good Health" Sound, Colour (Cartoon) Runs 9 minutes,
from: Central Film Library, Government Buildings, Bromyard Avenue, W.3.
"Health Services in Britain" Sound, Black and White, Runs 14
minutes from: Central Film Library, Government Buildings,
Bromyard Avenue, W.3.
Slides: From local Health Department.