The contribution focuses on current issues of health promotion in gymnasium programs of education. Referring to the current curricular reform it informs about aims and conception of education towards health in the General Educational Program for Gymnasiums and about experiences of implementing the issues to school programs.
Based on research outcomes conducted by Department of Education towards Health at Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, it provides an insight into current educational reality of education towards health at gymnasiums and discusses detected problems, especially imperfections in human protection in case of emergency.