Health Education

HEALTH EDUCATION
OBJECTIVES
• Define health education.
• Discuss the importance of health
education in the improvement of health
behavior.
• Explain the role and functions of the
nurse as a health educator.
OBJECTIVES
• Describe the various strategies of
community empowerment in the three
level of care.
• Explain the importance of
communication, networking and
collaboration in community
empowerment.
• Differentiate between health education
&health promotion
Define health education
HEALTH EDUCATION
• Health education is any combination of learning
experiences designed to help individuals and
communities improve their health, by increasing
their knowledge or influencing their attitudes.
• Process of providing information and advice
related to healthy lifestyle and encouraging the
development of knowledge, attitudes and skills
aimed at behaviour change of individuals or
communities.
• Enables and influences controll over own´s health
leading to optimalization of attitudes and habits
related to lifestyle and increasing quality of life.(
WHO )
HEALTH EDUCATION
• It is a social science that draws from
the biological, environmental, psychological,
physical and medical science to promote
health, prevent disease, disability and
premature death through education –driven
voluntary behavior change activities.
HEALTH EDUCATION
• Health education is concerned with a range of
goals, including giving information, attitude
change, behavior and social change.
• It is concerned with helping people to help
themselves and helping people work towards
creating healthier conditions for everybody
( “making healthy choices easier choices”
Ewles& simmets 1985 –Wass200)
HEALTH EDUCATION?
• The development of an individual, group,
institutional, community strategies in the
improvement of their health knowledge, skills,
attitude & behavior.
• Combination of learning experience designed
to facilitate voluntary action conducive to
health. (Green & Kreauter)
• Concerned with people at all stages of health
& illness to maximize each person’spotential
for healthy living.
Objective of Health Education/Health
Empowerment
• As a preventative measures .
• Facilitate strategies for change.
• Dissemination of health information to those
who need help.
• The empowerment of the community with
health information.
• Change the health behavior of the community.
• Community to be able to care forthemselves.
Why Health Education?
• For the improvement of the health status of
individual, families, communities, society &
nation.
• It enhance the quality of life for everyone.
• Focus on prevention, help reduce the health
costs both for the individuals & nation spend
on medical treatment.
Health Education Main principles
• Supported by the latest knowledge from research
(medicine, sociology, psychology).
• A systematic, comprehensive and consistent
activity.
• Adapted to age, gender, education and particular
health, mental or social problems of an individual
or community (school, entreprise, city).
• Encourages personal investment of an individual.
• Respects environment of an individual.
Health Education in Communities
Strategies
• Building collaborating team (physician, PH officer,
health counsellor, NGO, schools, municipality,
entreprise)
• Partnership and national networks (Healthy
Cities, Healthy Schools), EU projects
• Providing regular information – media, bulletins
• Motivation actions related to days acknowledged
by WHO – Health Day, Global Day without
Tobacco, Mental Health Week, International Day
of Fight against HIV/AIDS, etc.
Community Mobilization Client –
provider interaction
HEALTH EDUCATION
1. Social Capital
2. Social Marketing HEALTH CHANGE CHANGE
3. Community Mobilization LITERACY ATTITUDE BEHAVIOR
4. Policy Communication
5. Client-provider Interaction
Medtechs as a Health Educator
• The medical technologist is an AGENT for change
by helping identify and solve health related
problems by :
– Informing
– Advising
– Help in the acquisition of skills
– Clarifying beliefs and values
– Enabling the adaptation of life styles
– Promoting change in the structure &organization
which promote health.
– Provide a model of values and belief related to health.
Medtechs as a Health Educator
• Empower CLIENT about:
– Disease process sign& symptoms
– How to live with their health problem and live to
their full potential
– Diagnostic and treatment procedures
– Preventative & promotive measures
– FORMAL OR INFORMAL
Activities of A Health Educator
• Assess individual & community needs
• Plan health education
• Develop health education program
• Coordinated health program
• Implement health education programs
• Evaluate health education programs
• Write proposal for health education
• Build coalitions
• Identify resources
• Organize & mobilize communities for action.
• Advocate for health related issues
• Develop Mass media campaign .
• Conduct research
• Encourage healthy behavior
Problems In Health Education.
• Geographical layout.
• Accessibility
• Language
• Illiteracy & literacy rate
• Cost
• Availability of resources
• Culture
Problems In Health Education.
• Health Facilities
• Health Facilitators
• Attitudes both clients and educators
• Methods, message/material
• Educators or officials who carry out the task
• The tools use for demonstration
Health Literacy
• Illiteracy & Literacy –impact on health
Health information
Health Literacy : application of literacy skills to
health& health care .
• Being able to participate individually,
publically about health prevention and
promotion & treatment , preference.
• Able to intergrade new information and
understand process require to improve health
,have access to health resources
Health literacy Levels
• Function level literacy : receiving sufficient level
of factual information on health risks& services
available that they can participate in illness
prevention and health protective activities.
• Communicative &Interactive Health Literacy:
develop personal skills – developing capacity to
influence social norms & helping others .
Understanding how organization work being able
to access services they need .Critical Health
Literacy
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