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ABSTRACT
Home economists believe that amidst today's challenges to human wellness home economics has great potential to ameliorate the situation. Evidences albeit sporadic, are found for potential of home economics to contribute to human wellness. Experts realize the need for kind of education that home economics has been providing since more than a century. However recognition of home economics itself as the kind of education needed today is still rare. This paper reviewed the reports and evidences of relevant situations and tried to explore the actions needed for realization of potential of home economics to contribute to human wellness. It emerges that philosophical reviews indicating potential of home economics are relatively easier to find than empirical studies verifying contribution of home economics education to human wellness. Large scale trials or systematic reviews providing robust evidence for potential of home economics probably have never been conducted. Various strategies including conduction of such trials are given for unveiling home economics.
Keywords: Home Economics, Wellness, Education
INTRODUCTION:
The concept of human wellness that lead to the emergence of human economics as a field of study inl801 is still an unknown or new concept to most of the experts and agencies concerned with human wellness. Consequently strategies adopted for promoting human wellness and assessing progress are also focused on one or a few selected aspects of human wellness. It appears that such fragmented approaches are just changing the nature of threats to human wellness and burdens of various kinds of human miseries from one population to other without having any significant impact on overall wellness at global level. There are indications that well meaning experts often realize the need for comprehensive and preventive measures to promote human wellness but are not aware of existence of a field of study that trains people for education and research in promoting all rounded human wellness through preventive measures The question emerges that why Home economics that exist for more than 100 years now by has yet not been recognized as promoter of human wellness.
This paper (a) reviewed the research databases (1) to assess recognition of need for wellness education by non home economics professionals; (2) to explore reasons for disregard of home economics education as wellness education and (b)...