Comparison of Health Awareness among Public and Private Secondary School Students in District Bahawalpur
Abstract
In this era of science and technology human beings are provided with lot of facilities but they have also suffered with severe health issues. The health awareness may save humans from different health problems at earliest as it reaches to severity. As for as the health of students is concerned, it is equally important for themselves and also lead to a healthy society in future. The objective of this study is to determine the health awareness of secondary school students and comparison of awareness level among public and private secondary school students. Total 200 secondary school students both public and private were chosen as sample. The data was collected through questionnaire. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 20. T test is applied. The health awareness level among secondary school students was found poor. There is a significant difference of health awareness between public and private institutes. The private school students have more awareness than public school students. it is recommended that there may be inclusion of knowledge about health awareness in the syllabus
Authors
Javaid Iqbal
Ph D. Scholar, Department of Education, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Akhtar Ali
Dean, Faculty of Education, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Muhammad Farooq Ahmad
Ph D. Scholar, Department of Education, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan