This document discusses health education and its importance. It defines health education as informing, motivating, and helping people adopt and maintain healthy practices. The key points are:
- Health education aims to ensure communities value health, equip people with skills to solve health problems themselves, and promote proper use of health services.
- Models of health education include cognitive (providing information), motivational (addressing barriers to applying information), and social intervention (addressing prerequisites for health like income, food, shelter).
- The principles of effective health education are interest, participation, starting from known concepts, comprehension, reinforcement, motivation, learning by doing, using respected leaders, and building good relationships.
- The process
What is health education? difference between health education and propoganda, audio and visual aids used to deliver health education. types of communication. Steps to plan a dental health education program.
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A Re-Introduction to Health Education and the knowledge in it
purpose
dimension
aspects
importance
The Change, its process and management
The Education Process
The Teaching Strategies
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Health Education & Communication
UNIT IV:
Health Education
Aims, concepts and scope of health education.
National plan for health education
Communication techniques
Methods and media for health education programmes
Planning for health education & role of nurse
Health education has its origin during the ancient period when principles of disease prevention and health promotion were advocated and practiced.
Health education information at that time was communicated by face interaction.
Rather, principles of healthful living were integrated with culture and religious practices of a society.
Currently, health education is formal in its approach need to follow some guidelines.
It is institutionalized and is organized within the health care delivery system.
It began with the establishment of health centers in rural and urban areas
Emphasis was given on preventive, promotive and curative aspects of health.
Definition: Health education is a process that informs, motivates and helps the people to adopt and maintain healthy practices and lifestyles, advocates environmental changes as needed. (teaching the peoples about health related matters)
AIMS OF HEALTH EDUCATION:
To provide teaching on health matters
To motivate for learning regarding health
To improve knowledge and skill
To create awareness
To encourage people to adopt and maintain a healthy life style
To promote the proper use of health services
To stimulate for active participation in health services
CONCEPTS OF HEALTH EDUCATION:
Changing human behavior
Prevention of disease
Promotion of healthy lifestyles;
Modification of individual behavior to modification of “social environment”
Community participation to community involvement
Promotion of individual to Promotion of community
Self reliance
Informing people
Motivating people
Guiding into action
Primary Health Care Approach
Principles of health education:
SCOPE OF HEALTH EDUCATION:
Human biology: Anatomy and physiology, Importance of health & Effect of smoking, drinking and drugs on the body
Nutrition: Balanced diet, Nutritive value of food stuffs, Diet for pregnant and lactating mothers and others, Food sanitation, Nutrition deficiencies disease and there prevention & Motivation of good eating habits
Hygiene (personal and environmental): Personal hygiene, Environmental hygiene & Food hygiene
Mental health: Preventive measures against mental disorder & Guidance and counselling
Prevention of disease and accidents: Prevention of communicable, Non communicable disease Ex- D.M., C.H.D, Useful information about road safety, Knowledge about accidents & industrial Education regarding self screening measures
Utilization of health services: To Inform the community about available health services, voluntary agencies, motivate them to participate in national health programme
Family planning & maternal and child health: Planned and unplanned family, Immunization of pregnant women, Growth and
Health education is a vital part of community health nursing, because the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health require that patients understand health care requirements. Health education is an integral part of all health services and all health personnel's who are responsible for providing health care.
A Re-Introduction to Health Education and the knowledge in it
purpose
dimension
aspects
importance
The Change, its process and management
The Education Process
The Teaching Strategies
4. 2nd pbbsc - Comty - Unit - 4 - Health Education & Communication.pptxthiru murugan
2nd Year PBBSc Nursing community Health Nursing
Health Education & Communication
UNIT IV:
Health Education
Aims, concepts and scope of health education.
National plan for health education
Communication techniques
Methods and media for health education programmes
Planning for health education & role of nurse
Health education has its origin during the ancient period when principles of disease prevention and health promotion were advocated and practiced.
Health education information at that time was communicated by face interaction.
Rather, principles of healthful living were integrated with culture and religious practices of a society.
Currently, health education is formal in its approach need to follow some guidelines.
It is institutionalized and is organized within the health care delivery system.
It began with the establishment of health centers in rural and urban areas
Emphasis was given on preventive, promotive and curative aspects of health.
Definition: Health education is a process that informs, motivates and helps the people to adopt and maintain healthy practices and lifestyles, advocates environmental changes as needed. (teaching the peoples about health related matters)
AIMS OF HEALTH EDUCATION:
To provide teaching on health matters
To motivate for learning regarding health
To improve knowledge and skill
To create awareness
To encourage people to adopt and maintain a healthy life style
To promote the proper use of health services
To stimulate for active participation in health services
CONCEPTS OF HEALTH EDUCATION:
Changing human behavior
Prevention of disease
Promotion of healthy lifestyles;
Modification of individual behavior to modification of “social environment”
Community participation to community involvement
Promotion of individual to Promotion of community
Self reliance
Informing people
Motivating people
Guiding into action
Primary Health Care Approach
Principles of health education:
SCOPE OF HEALTH EDUCATION:
Human biology: Anatomy and physiology, Importance of health & Effect of smoking, drinking and drugs on the body
Nutrition: Balanced diet, Nutritive value of food stuffs, Diet for pregnant and lactating mothers and others, Food sanitation, Nutrition deficiencies disease and there prevention & Motivation of good eating habits
Hygiene (personal and environmental): Personal hygiene, Environmental hygiene & Food hygiene
Mental health: Preventive measures against mental disorder & Guidance and counselling
Prevention of disease and accidents: Prevention of communicable, Non communicable disease Ex- D.M., C.H.D, Useful information about road safety, Knowledge about accidents & industrial Education regarding self screening measures
Utilization of health services: To Inform the community about available health services, voluntary agencies, motivate them to participate in national health programme
Family planning & maternal and child health: Planned and unplanned family, Immunization of pregnant women, Growth and
Health education is a vital part of community health nursing, because the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health require that patients understand health care requirements. Health education is an integral part of all health services and all health personnel's who are responsible for providing health care.
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2. Health Education
“A process that informs, motivates& helps peopleto adopt & maintainhealthypractices &
lifestyles”
Triad
Knowledge
Practice Attitude
3. Importance of Health Education
Giving patients handouts about tetanus increased the rate of immunization against
tetanus among adults threefold.
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An educational booklet on back pain for patients reduced the number of consultations
made by patients over the following year & 84% said that they found it useful.
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4. Aims of Health Education
1. To ensure that health is valued as an asset in the community
2. To equip the people with skills, knowledge & attitudes to enable them solve their
health problems by their own actions & efforts
3. To promote the development & proper use of health services
5. Objectives of Health Education (1 of 3)
1. Impart knowledge, this will:
Clear the barriers of ignorance, prejudice & misconceptions
Lead to assuming more responsibility towards one’s health care
Induce awareness about health needs, minimizing the gap between needs &
demands
6. Objectives of Health Education (2 of 3)
2. Motivating people:
The emphasis should be on motivating the consumer to choose his
own alternatives about the health actions
7. Objectives of Health Education (3 of 3)
3. Guiding into action:
The suggested technology must be available, culturally
acceptable & economically affordable
The stimulus to continue with the change should be persistent
8. Models
Cognitive Model – “Telling people”
Health
Illness
Ways to improving & protecting health & efficient use of the
delivery system.
Is it enough?
Why?
9. Model
Motivation Model:
Reluctance or inability of people to translate information
received into practice.
Shortcomings:
Other elements needed
Social & economic factors
11. Stages for Health Education
Stage of Sensitization
Stage of Publicity
Stage of Education
Stage of Attitude change
Stage of Motivation and Action
Stage of Community Transformation (social change)
12. Principles of Health Education
1. Interest.
2. Participation.
3. Proceed from known to
unknown.
4. Comprehension.
5. Reinforcement by repetition.
6. Motivation
7. Learning by doing
8. People, facts and media.
9. Good human relations
10. Leaders
13. Principles of Health Education
1. INTEREST: People are unlikely to listen to those who are not of their
interest.
2. PARTICIPATION: based on active learning - How? Group discussion,
workshops, panel discussions.
3. Start from the KNOWN & lead the people to the UNKNOWN, i.e.
knowledge. This will enable the community to develop an in-depth insight
into their own health problems.
14. Principles of Health Education
4. MOTIVATION: By creating the desire in a person to learn through
incentives like praise, love, rivalry, rewards, etc.
5. LEARNING BY DOING:
Usually leaves a lasting imprint & leads towards positive action
15. Principles of Health Education
6. GOOD HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS:
People must accept you as a friend & well-wisher & have
the confidence to confide to you.
The personal qualities of the health educator are more
important than his technical qualifications
16. Principles of Health Education
7. LEADERS:
People learn best from people who they respect & admire.
Try to make use of Community Head, School Teachers, etc.
17. Contents of Health Education
1. Personal hygiene
2. Proper health habits
3. Nutrition education
4. Personal preventive measures
5. Safety rules
6. Proper use of health services
7. Mental health
8. Sex education
9. Special education (occupation, mothers …..etc)
18. Communication
Communicator: the person or the team gives the message (Educator).
Message: the contents (materials) of health education
Channel: method of carrying the message
Audience: the receivers (users or targets) of the message
19. Good Communication Technique
Source credibility.
Clear message.
Good channel: individual, group & mass education.
Receiver: ready, interested, not occupied.
Feed back.
Observe non-verbal cues.
Active listing.
Establishing good relationship.
20. Educator
Personnel of Health Services
Social Worker / Community Worker / Multipurpose Worker
Students
School personnel
Community leaders & influential
Requirements:
Personality: popular, influential and interested in work.
Efficiency trained and prepared for the job.
Must show good examples.
21. Message
What information to be communicated.
Simple, at the level of understanding.
Culturally accepted.
Interested.
Meet a felt need.
Avoid technical jargon.
Use audiovisual aids.
23. Practice
2. Group
a. Lessons and lectures in schools.
b. lectures in work places e.g. factories.
c. Demonstration and training
3. Mass media.
1. Broadcasting: Radio & TV
2. Written word: Newspapers, Posters, Booklets
3. Others e.g. theaters
24. Communication Barriers
Social and cultural gap between the sender and the receiver
Limited receptiveness of receiver
Negative attitude of the sender
Limited understanding and memory
Insufficient emphasis by the sender (health professional)
Contradictory messages
Health education without identifying the “needs "of the community
25. Adoption of new ideas or practice
Five steps
1. Awareness (know)
2. Interests (details)
3. Evaluation (Advantages Vs Disadvantages)
4. Trial (practices)
5. Adoption (habit)
26. Health Education The Process of Change
1. Awareness:
Influenced by:
The educational approaches adopted
The ability of the person to perceive
The recipient learns some general information about the new idea or practice
(its usefulness, limitations & applicability)
27. Health Education The Process of Change
2. Interest:
The recipient seeks more detailed information
He is willing to listen or read more about it
3. Evaluation:
The recipient weighs the pros & cons of the practice, its usefulness to him or his
family resulting in a decision to try or reject the proposed practice.
28. Health Education The Process of Change
4. Trial:
When the decision is put into practice
The recipient needs additional information so as to overcome the problems
in implementing the idea.
5. Adoption:
The recipient is convinced & decides that the new practice is good & adopts
it.
30. Process of Health Education
1. Planning & Implementation:
❖ Pre-requisites:
1. Identification of the community health problems.
2. Identification of the vulnerable & at-risk groups.
31. Process of Health Education
Identification of resources & defining the required inputs from:
The health centre
The local governmental sectors
The community
Identification of possible barriers, inadequacies & constraints &
alternative methods to overcome them.
32. Process of Health Education
Set up objectives:
The priority health problems to be tackled
The priority groups to be educated
Choose your methods of communication & material (the message to be passed on
in detail)
Schedule your activities on a time basis (weekly, monthly, biannual, annual), e.g.
day/date/time, Group/#, Venue, Subject, Media, Educator, comment.
33. Process of Health Education
2. Evaluation:
Should not be left to the end, but should be made from time to time to assess the progress.
Evaluate by using indicators for monitoring:
Structure:
Manpower
Materials (media & facilities)
34. Process of Health Education
Measure its relevancy by:
The number participating
The frequency of sessions
Outcome:
In terms of achievements throughplan objectives, e.g.
reduction of disease, incidence measured in terms of
numbers, rates & percentages.
