HEALTH

EDUCATION
HEALTH EDUCATION
 Health education is a type of education designed for
individuals or the public at large to gain the knowledge,
skills, value, and attitudes necessary to promote,
maintain, improve, and restore their, or another person's,
health.
 It is the process of imparting information about health in
such a way that the recipient is motivated to use that
information for the protection or advancement of his
own, his family's or his community's health
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It is vital to the practice of prevention

doctor’s services and to all other community health resources

It is the channel for reaching the people and alerting them to the

A ‘health educated’ person is well aware of his own responsibility and of

the steps he himself must take to receive the full benefits of prevention at
all levels.
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DISEASE PREVENTION
 Health promotion is the process of empowering people
to increase control over their health and its determinants
through health literacy efforts and multisectoral action to
increase healthy behaviors. 
 Health promotion engages and empowers individuals
and communities to choose healthy behaviors
and reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases
through primary prevention
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DISEASE PREVENTION
 Healthcare programs that have a primary focus on
specific efforts aimed at reducing the development and
severity of chronic disease and other morbidities.
 The program is designed to help clients achieve and
continue to enjoy optimal health. Your program director
will design programs that will:
 Help clients identify the target state.

 Help clients discover their strengths and needs.

 Support path to full health and wellness potential.

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EDUCATION
1. Interest:
 Health education must be imported in a
interesting manner. Learning only takes place
when one is interested method like explaining
example of current events creates interest. Health
programmes of schools must be organized in a
interesting manner, so students participation will
be more.
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EDUCATION
4. Practical knowledge:
 Health education is better understood if imparted in
practical situations. Practically experiencing healthy
programmes develop more interest and learning.
5. Classification of healthy education:
 Subject matter imparted in healthy education must be
classified according to the age group. Topic suitable for
higher secondary students may be very difficult for
elementary students like Topic on Aids, Cancer etc.
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EDUCATION
2. Readiness of learner:
 Learner must feel comfortable and willing to participate
in school healthy programmes. Therefore proper
motivation and interest should be aroused in students.
3. Positive manner:
 In health education, positive statements like Be Clean
area preferable, there should not be negative statements
like do not remain dirty, positive statements are effective
and workable than negative statements
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EDUCATION
6. Better communication:
 Language used must be easy and understandable so that
better communication will take place and students can
easily make their doubts clear.
7. Based on need of the hour:
 Health education must cover the most required topics.
Health programmes running under school organization
therefore mainly includes topics like personal hygiene,
communicable disease, first/aid. School health education
programmes mainly concern about childhood and
adolescent needs.
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EDUCATION
8. Teaching Aids:
 Utilization of teaching aids like audio/visual adds or
illustrative materials in explanations lead to better and
interesting learning in students. Showing films or
photographs with message of health importance are
preferable.
9. Individual Attention:
 Sometimes situation may not permit to adopt health habits
quickly, therefore effective health educational process will
only take place when individual attention and reasonable
time is given to the same person. Punishment must not be
given to students if one is unable to adopt health education
practically.
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EDUCATION
10. No competitive spirit:
 Health education is against the competitive spirit. No
two individuals could be alike in posture and no single
posture is said to be best. Therefore, there should
not be any kind of competitive spirit, this may lead to
unhealthy competition and use of unfair means.
11. Motivation:
 Providing motivation is the most necessary part of health
education, for practicing health programmes in life style.
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EDUCATION
 12. Health Education is a collective effort:
 It is duty of every individual to contribute in the health
of community. Not only physical teachers, every general
teacher and student are involved in the health
educational guidance and counseling programmes.
 13. Systematic and Continues efforts:

 Systematic and continues health programmes are more

beneficial than unsystematic and noncontinuous
programmes. To produce desirable education what
benefits they are gaining etc., are the quarries need to be
properly checked for betterment of the health education
system if needed.
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EDUCATION
14. Socially Accepted:
 In many education institutions, health education includes
the knowledge of ‘sex education’ and many times it was
protested by some people as they declare this topic ‘non-
educational’.
 Topics like causes of Aids, Hepatitis-B are equally
essential, rather more important. Therefore in a
cooperative manner, health educator need to progress in
imparting knowledge on such topics.
 Now a days society has accepted ‘health education’ as
important discipline, but then also the knowledge imparted
to students must” be acceptable to local community.