Health Education

Health Education

Definition : Health education is the process by which individuals and group of people learn to “:

???Promote , Maintain , Restore health.

Health education is a systematic social educational activity which has plan, organization, and evaluation. It spreads the knowledge related to health care to people. It assists people to understand themselves heath status, recognize the factors harming health. It makes people change their ill life habits and behaviors, and adopt the behaviors and life styles conducive to health actively, and reduce and eliminate the health risk factors in order to prevent illness, promote health and increase the quality of life.

Purpose of health education

??To teach the clients to build up a correct awareness on health

??To change the clients’ ill (unhealthy) life habits

??To nurture well (healthy) behaviors and life style

??To reduce or eliminate health risk factors

??To prevent illness, promote health and enhance the health level of whole nationality


Tasks of health education

??To assist the clients to build up feeling of responsibility on preventing illness and maintaining oneself healt status

??To create an environment that helps to individual’s behavior change; to promote the individual to adopt the advisable decision-making and select the behaviors that help to health.

??To instruct the client to master the knowledge related to the care of illness and healing in order to enhance the abilities of self -health care and self-care. In this way, the client will become a healthy person and a person with high quality of life.


CONTENTS OF HEALTH EDUCATION

???Nutrition

???Health habits

???Personal hygiene

???Safety rules

???Basic of disease & preventive measures

???Mental health

???Proper use of health services

???Sex education

???Special education for groups( fd handlers, occupations, mothers, school health etc. )

Principles of healthy life style e.g. sleep, exercise

Process of health education

(A) To assess the patient’s learning needs

(B) To establish the teaching and learning objectives

(C) To constitute the teaching plan

(D) To implement the teaching plan

(E) To evaluate the teaching and learning

Principles of health education:

???Interest

???Participation

???Comprehension

???Proceeding from the known to the unknown

???Reinforcement through repetition

???Good human relations.

??? Learning by doing:

“ If I hear, I forget

If I see, I remember

If I do, I know”.

???Motivation, the desire to know and learn:

???Principle of meeting patient’s needs first.

???participation of clients and their family members

???teaching and learning step by step



To assess the patient’s learning needs

To assess leaning ability

To assess psychological status

To assess social-cultural background

To assess leaning attitude

To assess prevenient learning experiences

To assess learning preparation

To assess the learning needs



Teaching content

1) General healthful knowledge

2) Knowledge of the prevention and treatment of illness

3) Knowledge of various examinations and treatments

4) Knowledge of administering reasonable medication

5) Knowledge of mental health

6) Knowledge of seeing a physician

7) Knowledge of behavior instruction and training conducive to health

8) Knowledge of teaching on each disease

Teaching methods

1) Lecture

2) Group discussion

3) Role playing

4) Field visit

5) instruction

6) Demonstration

7) Private interview

8) Audiovisual teaching material

9) Computer assistant


Behavior and health

??Well behavior can promote health

??Ill behavior can harm health

healthy behavior

The healthy behavior is a behavior performance when a individual is on a well state in physiological, psychological and social aspects. (e.g. to receive examinations related to health; vaccination)

behavior relevant to health : It is the behavior of individual or group, which is relevant to health and illness.


Definition of behavior modification

Behavior modification is a process of behavior intervention. It promotes the targets of behavior modification to change their special behaviors by adopting certain interventions according to certain expectation, and in definite conditions.

Purpose of behavior modification

To help people to change ill behavior and life habit nurtured by them, adopt behaviors that promote health consciously, and culture good life style.