Considering the Role of Health and Environment Course on Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University Students' Attitude toward Health and Environment

One of the factors that can promote health in the society is level of education. Nowadays the number of students and education level of them at tertiary level is increasing. Some of these students' major in teaching and will be dealing with students at elementary and secondary levels. Teachers and students constitute the majority of the society. Teachers play a major role in promoting health awareness of all students and the society. Hence, teachers and students’ health are significant. Then it follows that the role of health education for teacher-trainees are twice as important. Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University is one of the universities which is tiring the future teachers. Our University offers the course of Health and Environment. The present study aims at investigating the role of this course on students' attitude toward health and environment. Then results show that students believe that the content of this course in terms of physical and psychological illness, addiction, nutrition and environmental issues are helpful. Moreover, the respondent agrees with the effectiveness of this course in promoting health beliefs, health behaviors and positive attitude toward observing health norms. The students also agree with the teacher's ability in all the covered teaching contents.