Abstract
This study points at the differences between childۥs knowledge of health formed and evaluated by a school and childۥs personal conception of health brought to them with a life experience. It brings up the difficulties related to professional term “health” Czech/Slovak language and in English language on the other side.
It summarizes the medical concept of health codified by the WHO definition in 1946, and then modified by Ottawa Charter in 1986. It introduces two basic types of health theories (explicit, implicit), and focuses on a subcategory of lay theory of health.
Then it defines “childۥs conception of health” noncommittally. It includes ten lay conceptions helpful for the research of childۥs and adolescentۥ conception of health.
It shows the possibilities to diagnose childۥs conception of health. At the end, it presents the results of chosen foreign research studies.