This document discusses health education, including its aims, principles, scope, methods, and definitions. The key points are:
- Health education aims to encourage healthy lifestyles and behaviors by providing knowledge and experiences to influence habits, attitudes, and understanding of individual and community health.
- Its goals include ensuring health is valued, equipping people to solve health problems through their own actions, and promoting proper use of health services.
- Principles of effective health education include credibility, interest, participation, motivation, comprehension, reinforcement, learning by doing, progression from known to unknown, leading by example, good relationships, and feedback.
- Methods can be individual like counseling, or group-based like lectures
2. Introduction
Health education is a term commonly used and
referred to by health professional. Health
education is indispensable in acheiveng
individual and community health.
3. A process aimed at encouraging people to
want to be healthy, to know hoe to stay
healthy, to do what they can individually and
collectively to maintain health, and to seek
help when needed.
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Definitions
4. • Health education is the process by which people
change their habits, attitudes and knowledge and
choose the path leading to better health.
• Health education aims of bridging the gulf
between the health knowledge and health
practices of the people.
5. Aims of health Education
• The aim of Health education is to help people to
achieve health by their own actions and efforts.
The WHO has stated the aims of health education as
follows:
• To ensure that health is valued as an asset to the
community.
• To equip the people with skills, knowledge and
attitudes to enable them to solve their health problems
by their own actions and efforts.
• To promote the development and proper use of health
services
6. • Health education is most important tool of
community health
• It aims at breaking down barriers of ignorance,
prejudice and misconceptions and providing
learning experiences which favorably influence
habits, attitudes and knowledge relating to
individuals, family and community health
7. Changing concept
• Prevention of disease to promotion of healthy
life style.
• The modification of individual behaviour to
modification of social environment in which the
individual live.
• Community participation to community
involvement.
• Promotion of individuals and community self
reliance.
8. Scope of health education
• Preventing diseases
• Promoting health
• Curative aspect (drug, diet, rest etc.,)
• Rehabilitation and follow-up
• Utilizing the services
• National health programmes
9. Principles of health education
Credibility
It is the degree to which the message to be
communicated is perceived as trustworthy
by the receiver.
10. Interest
It is psychological principle that people are
unlikely to listen to those things which are not
to their interest.
Participation
Health education should aim at encouraging
people to work actively with health worker and
others in identifying their own health problems
and also in developing solutions and plan to
work them out.
11. Motivation
• Awakening the desire is called motivation
Comprehension
• In health education we must know the level of
understanding ,education and literacy of people
to whom the teaching is directed.
13. Known to unknown
• From particular to general, simple to cmore
complicated.
Setting an example
• The health educator should set a good example
in life things.
14. • Good human relation
Sharing of information ,ideas and feelings happen
most easily between people who have a good
relationship.
• Feedback
For effective communication feed back is
nessasary.
• Leaders
We learn best from people whom we respect and
regard.
15. Areas of health education
• Human biology
• Nutrition
• Hygiene 1.personal 2. environmental
• Care of mother and children
• Prevention of communicable diseases
• Mental health
• Prevention of accidents
• Use of health services
16. Methods of health education
• Individuals methods
1. Interviews
2. Dialogues
3. Interpersonal communication
4. Counseling
• Group methods
1.One way methods: lecturer, films, charts, flannel graph,
exhibits and flash cards
2. Two way methods: Group discussions, panel discussions,
symposium, work shop, role play, demonstration,
programmed instructions
17. Methods of health education
• Public/ community approach method
1. Posters
2. Press
3. Health magazines
4. Films
5. Radios
6. Television
7. Health exhibitions
8. Health museums
