This PPT prepared by Teacher Educator from Thiagarajar College of Preceptors -Madurai for B.Ed Tainees

1. Yoga Health & Physical Education
HEALTHEDUCATION
UNIT- 2
DR.A.TELMA PRIYA
PHYSICAL DIRECTOR
THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS
MADURAI

2. MEANING OF HEALTH EDUCATION
• Health education is a profession of educating people about health. Areas within
this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health,
emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health, as well as sexual and
reproductive health education.
• Health education can be defined as the principle by which individuals and groups
of people, learn to behave in a manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance,
or restoration of health. However, as there are also multiple definitions of health
education. The Joint Committee on Health Education and Promotion
Terminology of 2001 defined Health Education as "any combination of planned
learning experiences based on sound theories that provide individuals, groups,
and communities the opportunity to acquire information and the skills needed to
make quality health decisions."

3. • The World Health Organization defined Health
Education as "comprising of consciously constructed
opportunities for learning involving some form of
communication designed to improve health literacy,
including improving knowledge, and developing life
skills which are conducive to individual and community
health."

4. AIMS AND OBJECTIVE OF HEALTH EDUCATION
• The Aim of Health Education should be -
1. Help students to assimilate the body if knowledge appropriate to health
education.
2. Expose students to a variety of activities and experience related to health
education.
3. Help individuals develop a sound understanding of their total development and
enable them to attain positive self-images.
4. Provide opportunities for students make personal decisions related to their
intellectual, physical and emotional development.
5. Allow students to experience social relations that will encourage desirable
behaviour, leadership and co-operation with others.

5. Objectives
• For Students
1. A positive attitude towards physical fitness and good health.
2. A personal value system and satisfactory relationship with peers.
3. increased self-awareness and a positive self concept.
4. Independence, interdependence, and a sense of responsibility.
5. An understanding of human sexuality.
6. An understanding of appropriate factual information and concepts.

6. For Patients and Public
• 1. To increase public awareness that disease are significant public health problem.
2. To increase public awareness of symptoms and signs of disease.
3. To improve the knowledge and attitudes of patients about detection, treatment and
control of disease.
4. To promote the family and community educational material essential for positive
lifestyle habits.
5. To create public awareness about the ill-effects of alcohol, smoking and drugs, etc.

7. For Health professionals
• 1. To increase knowledge, attitude and skills of all health professionals regarding sign,
symptoms and management strategies for health hazards to improve disease control.
2. To encourage health professionals to treat patients carefully.
3. To develop resource and material for use of health professionals.
4. To promote research all over the world to curb health hazards.
5. To encourage continuing educational programmes on accurate information on
diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

8. SCOPE OF HEALTH EDUCATION
• Health, Population and Environment Education is important to provide them safe
and clean environment.
• Health education are various places, organization and subjects through which
health education can be acquired.
• Population education is related with every aspect and activity of human beings.
• Environment education aims to develop a healthy environment by the
conservation and management of environment.
• In the beginning, the scope of health education was limited to families,
schools and communities, but today its scope is considerably widened.

10. The scope of health education are given below:
1. Fields of Health education from socio- cultural point of view: Human is a social being.
People have different settings according to their occupation and activities. Fundamentally
home, school and community are considered as the scope of health education from the
socio -cultural point of view.
2. Home: Home is the foundation upon which their society is built. Home is the place where
family members live who often has similar needs and interest. Fundamental behavior
patterns such as eating, sleeping, as well as many emotional relation with people in
different situations is laid at home. Within the home, parents are the principal educators.
Most of the health education is done informally in the day- by- day give and take of
relationships. And community health workers can provide health education to the parents
about the best ways of living, care of child, keeping home and environment clean and so
on. They can help the school going both through personal contacts and parent teacher
organizations.

11. 2. School: School is important place where the health education can be given to the students. Health
education of the students should be one with education in general as well as with the school
health programmes. School health education takes its place in the general curriculum through the
individual health counselling, in relation to daily experiences and systematic health instructions.
Health education activities motivate us and encourage the students to utilize the available health
services for the improvement of health. Planned and formal school health education teaches
various health rules, ways of living, preventive measures, social responsibilities, scientific
thoughts and facts, health practices and so on.
3. Community: A group of families and ethnic groups from the community. Community wide
health education is frequently called public health education. Public health education is
commonly conducted through activities of health departments, voluntary health agencies, schools,
and many other community groups. Health education is given mainly regarding the community
health condition and the ways of their improvement, drainage water supply, sewage and garbage
disposal, environmental sanitation, etc. Thus, the community provides the broader areas for
acquiring knowledge and skill of health education.

12. Relationship of Health Education with other aspects
• The scope of health education is not just limited with the home and community and it is also
not complete in itself. In its educational process, health education borrows items forms
various other social sciences, e.g. psychology, sociology, education, home science, bio-
chemistry, economics, etc.

13. • Perception in learning, motivation and learning process, role of reward and
punishment, etc. are related to psychology.
• Taboos, values, beliefs, norms, values, customs, group dynamics, etc. are related
to sociology.
• Size of family, birth gap, reproduction, sex hygiene, etc. fall under the
population education.
• In the same way Medicine, Anthropology, Biology, home science, Environment
education, Physical education are also involved directly or indirectly in the
health education.
So, the scope of health education also denotes its relationships with other social
science or fields of study and the various occupational areas of health education.

14. IMPARTING HEALTH EDUCATION IN SCHOOL
• There is nothing unique about the methods of imparting
health education. Health education forms an integral
part of a child’s total education. As such, all essentials
of health education should be carried on at all stages of
the educational process. The following are some of the
important ways and means, through which health
education can be imparted effectively in schools.

15.  Healthful school environment.
 Environment is the most important aspect. So any of health education must give top priority to the
improvement of physical and human environment. Neat, good in appearance and well-maintained
school-building, classrooms, equipment and playgrounds as well as sympathetic and affectionate
teachers, contribute greatly to inculcate healthful living habit.
 Systematic health instructions
As stated, direct knowledge on health must be provided in schools through subjects like hygiene, general
science, etc. This will help students to know human body in an effective way.
 Lectures and talks on health
Special lectures on health and physical fitness by experts, should be arranged from time to time. Speech
is the best medium of factual details, provided it is adjusted to the particular audience.

16.  Printed material
Books , leaflets, posters and charts etc can be effective in providing health
education. This material can be had from the city and the districts health
authorities. Students can be suggested for making simple charts etc regarding
food exercise & diseases , their prevention and similar other topics.
 Health Scrap-books
Students should also be encouraged to maintain scrapbooks on health. On the top
of each page, one important health rule should be pasted. Pictures, illustrating
important healthy rules, causes and remedies of various diseases, neat and
healthy living, function of different organs in human body should also be
collected and pasted in the scrap book.

17.  Health clubs
Every school should organize a “Health Club” as self-governing unit.
Through this club pupils can be associated with school health laws and their
administration. They can also be encouraged to practice health rules in their
daily lives and also induces others to do the same,
 Health Weeks
One Week may be set apart each year for health propaganda. During this
week, school and personal cleanliness campaign can be done by students
with instructions of their teachers, on classwise basis. Special posters, charts
and other illustrative material should be prepared and exhibited. Special
lecture on health, sanitation and hygiene should also be arranged during this
week.

18. HEALTH INSTRUCTION, SERVICE AND SUPERVISION
• The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, strongly emphasises the need to provide employees
with instruction, information and training necessary to ensure their health and safety. Providing
employees with health and safety information and training reduces the chance of them suffering injuries
or ill health. It helps them acquire the skills, knowledge and attitude to make them competent in the
safety and health aspects of their work and instils a positive health and safety culture.
• The crew should be provided with information on:
 The hazards and risks within the workplace (i.e. the boat).
 The hazards and risks affecting specific tasks or operations carried out by the person.
 The control measures in place to minimise exposure to these risks.
 Information and instructions on the job to be carried out and how to work safely.
 Measures to be taken in an emergency.

19. • Training means showing a person the correct method of doing a task and making sure that he
or she can carry out the task correctly and safely. It can be formal, mandatory training such
as the BIM 3 day Basic Safety Training Course or informal on the job training such as
showing a person the correct method of doing a job, pointing out dangers and ensuring that
the person understands and can do the job safely. All crew must be trained in safe work
practices. This may include training in the safe use of equipment, safe work practices for the
fishing method being used and any unique or unusual characteristics of the boat.
• Work practices and the effectiveness of any training provided should be monitored. Where
unsafe work practices are detected and safety, health and welfare measures are not being
followed by any member of the crew, the work or activity should be stopped until corrective
action has been taken and safety controls are fully complied with. New or young crew
members may also require extra supervision
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