Edwin Yen explains that of the seven core areas in the new nine-year standard curriculum that will go into effect in 2001, "health and physical education" (including sex education) is ranked right up there as an equal with languages, the humanities, social studies, natural sciences, technology, and mathematics. It will receive 10 to 15 % of total class time.
晏涵文指出，預定在民國九十年開始實施的國中、小學「九年一貫課程制」，將學習領域分為七大核心；未來含括性教育的「健康與體育」科，將和語文、數學、社會、自然與科技等科目並列，可以分配到百分之十至十五的教學時間。