Association of Education and Physical Fitness For Health Development: Exploring the Reciprocal Relationship between Health and Education for Child Development

Abstract

Health is an important concern for all societies since itcontributes to their overall development. Health, nutrition and education areimportant for the overall development of the child and these three inputs needto be addressed in a comprehensive manner. While the relationship betweenhealth and education is seen more in terms of the role that the latter plays increating health awareness and health status improvements, what is notadequately represented in the debates is the reciprocal relationship betweenhealth and education, especially when it comes to children. Studies have shownthat poor health and nutritional status of children is a barrier to attendanceand educational attainment and therefore plays a crucial role in enrollment,retention, and completion of school education. This paper focuses onassociation of yoga and physical education for fitness and health.