Welcome to the Course
Welcome to the e-Bug Health Educator Training course, thank you for joining us! This is a three-week course on e-Bug, a free educational resource operated by Public Health England (PHE) …
Course: e-Bug Health Educator Training
Spreading Bugs Activities
e-Bug was developed for use in schools pre-COVID-19 and so some activities may require modification based on your school’s distancing guidelines. Please use your judgement and tell us how you …
Protecting Bug Buster activities
e-Bug was developed for use in schools pre-COVID-19 and so some activities may require modification based on your school’s distancing guidelines. Please use your judgement and tell us how you …
Background: Using antibiotics responsibly
Links to activities: antibiotics scenarios. Taking antibiotics when you don’t need them puts you and your family at risk. To help keep antibiotics working you are urged to always take …
Background: What can we do to care for ourselves?
Links to activities: antibiotics scenarios. We all have a part to play in helping to reduce infections. Part of this is knowing how we can prevent infections and take care …
Background: Vaccinations and how we get information on health issues
Links to activities: accessing health information online, vaccinations activity, and antibiotics scenarios. We will now focus briefly on the importance of vaccines. Vaccines keep us from catching dangerous infections and …
Background: National and community efforts to reduce resistance
Links to activities: accessing health information online, vaccinations activity, antibiotics scenarios. Governments and health systems work to reduce antimicrobial resistance by doing things like: Improving how healthcare systems prescribe and …
Background: What is antimicrobial resistance?
Links to activities: comic strip, bacterial resistance, antibiotic awareness and colour change, and debate kits. Antimicrobials are medicines that help your body fight infection by killing microbes including bacteria (antibiotic …
Bug Busters activities
e-Bug was developed for use in schools pre-COVID-19 and so some activities may require modification based on your school’s distancing guidelines. Please use your judgement and tell us how you …
Background: What is the immune system?
Links to activities: comic strip, Professor Helix videos, and vaccinations activity. Immunity is the body’s ability to protect itself from infections. Our body is extremely efficient at keeping us healthy …
Mouth bug activities
e-Bug was developed for use in schools pre-COVID-19 and so some activities may require modification based on your school’s distancing guidelines. Please use your judgement and tell us how you …
Summary of week 2
Thank you for completing week two of the e-Bug Health Educator course. This week we covered food hygiene and oral hygiene, including how to prevent foodborne illness by washing hands …
Background: Limiting tooth decay
Links to activities: healthy oral hygiene and healthy diet: how much sugar is in your drinks. Tooth decay can be prevented by limiting the number of times we consume foods …
Background: “Sugar attacks”
Links to activities: healthy oral hygiene and healthy diet: how much sugar is in your drinks. A “sugar attack” to our teeth occurs when we consume sugary foods and drinks …
Background: What is dental plaque and how does it form?
Links to activities: healthy oral hygiene and healthy diet: how much sugar is in your drinks. Public Health England data from 2019 has found that almost 9 out of 10 …