The present writing wish to emphasize the importance of the health education among elementary-school children. After a short Hungarian and Romanian historical introduction we analyse the present situation in Romania. In our analyse we are presenting a two county-wide own research which includes 704 elementary school classes. We were curious to fi nd out the proportion of the children who are involved in health education during their four year studies at the elementary level. We also tried to highlight the effect of the material lack in the native language.