The knowledge on health to prevent any risk from the health behavior related to diseases or injuries in seek for practices on the health behavior should be done in the health education in the elementary as the stage to form the desirable basic living habits for the health.
Accordingly, this study aims at suggesting the basic materials for the health education in order to increase the right dietary life, improvement on the school food supply and quality of school food supply among others by surveying the degree of satisfaction and effect for the school food supply to increase the enhancement of quality in operating the school food supply for 1,129 students in 15 elementary schools located in Seoul (Gangdong, Gangseo, Gangnam and Gangbuk areas).
The questionnaire applied to this study includes three items on the basic questions (gender, grade and school location), ten items for two areas regarding the degree of satisfaction to the school food supply (perception to the taste and type, perception to the hygienic state), and ten items in two areas regarding the effects of the school food supply (changes in the perception to the school food supply and changes in the attitude to the school food supply).
The analysis on the data from the collected questionnaires was done with the statistics analysis program SPSS 12.0 to obtain the average and standard deviation by the general characteristics (gender, grade and school location) for the research objects and to identify any significant difference using t-test and f-test at a level of p<.05. The analytical findings are as follows; First, the average on the perception of school food supply in the satisfaction item was 3.204 with significant differences in the grade and school location, of which the highest difference was shown in the forth grade (3.501) for the grade and in Gangdong (3.357) for the school location. The overall average on the preference to the school food supply was 3.564 with significant differences in the gender, grade and school location, of which female students (3.688) showed higher than male students (3.444) for the gender, and the highest difference was shown in the forth grade (3.922) for the grade and in Gangdong (3.757) for the school
location.
Second, the overall average on changes in the perception of school food supply in the effect item was 3.459 with significant differences in the grade and school location, of which the highest difference was shown in the forth grade (3.729) for the grade and in Gangdong (3.797) for the school location. The overall average on the preference to the school food supply was 3.318 with significant differences in the grade and school location, of which the highest difference was shown in the forth grade (3.573) for the grade and in Gangdong
(3.586) for the school location. Considering the aforesaid findings, it is important to practice the health education to contain the health knowledge related to the nutrition in order to intake the adequate amount in balance with diverse food by correcting the irregular and imbalanced dietary habits in the childhood. The goals of health education for the nutrition do not lie in delivering the simple health knowledge, but in keeping more rationingdietary living by applying the health knowledge to the actuinglife. It is considered necessary to provide the structuringinstructions from the elementary school in teaching the dietary habits for
the m ingement of nutrition for children in the age of forming the dietary habits as such teaching aims at leading them to have the desirable dietary habits and to learn the abilities of self-management on the dietary life.