Health education aims to promote health and well-being through increasing knowledge and facilitating informed decision making. It focuses on developing health practices and lifestyle changes. The objectives of health education include preventing disease, promoting healthy lifestyles, improving quality of life, and empowering communities to take responsibility for their own healthcare. Planning health education involves understanding communities, setting learning objectives, and selecting appropriate methods and media for implementation. Evaluation assesses the effectiveness of programs in meeting their purposes. Community health nurses play an important role in providing health education.

1. Presented by:
Donboklang Pohrmen
Roll No: 16
4th Year B. Sc Nursing

3. Definition
“Health Education is a Holistic process with Intellectual,
Psychological and Social dimension relating to activities that
increase the abilities of people to make informed decisions
that affect their personal, family and community well being”
OR
“Health Education is a process which affects changes in the
Health practices of people and in the Health practices and
Lifestyle”
OR
WHO:- “Health Education like general education, is concerned
with changes in knowledge of people. In its most usual forms,
it concentrates on developing such health practices as are
believed to bring the best possible state of well being”

5. Objectives of Health Education
i. To prevent awareness of health and make health a value
community assets.
ii. To promote health lifestyle and improve the quality of life.
iii. To promote the utilization of available health.
iv. To promote active community participation in National
Health Programmes.
v. To promote self-confidence and self-reliance of
communities so that they can take over the responsibility
of Primary Health Care.
vi. To arouse interest provide new knowledge, improve skills
and change attitudes in making rational decisions to solve
their own problems.

6.  Identification.
 Involvement.
 Indigenization.
 Indoctrination.
 Integration.
 Influences.
 Innovation.

7. General Principles of Education
 Credibility.
 Interest.
 Participation.
 Motivation.
 Comprehension.
 Reinforcement.
 Learning by doing.
 Known to Unknown.
 Setting an example.
 Good human relations.
 Feedback.
 Leader

8. Methods of Health
Education

9. Planning, Implement
and Evaluation of
Health Education
Programmes

10. Planning of Health Education
a) Knowledge about the Community.
b) Fixing of Targets.
c) Setting up Learning objectives.
d) Organization of the content.
e) Selection of medium.

11. Implementation of Health Education
 Select the Educator:-
i. Acceptability.
ii. Maturity.
iii. Conviction.
iv. Communicator.
v. Training.

12. Understand the Community
i. Community needs.
ii. Community participation.
iii. Community perception.
iv. Community resources

13. Rationalize the Delivery
i. Know to Unknown.
ii. General to Local.
iii. Simple to Complex.
iv. Felt need to health need

14. Evaluation of Health Education
i. Purposes of Evaluation
ii. Characteristics

15. Role of Community Health
Nurse in Health Education

16. Summary
I. Introduction
II. Definition
III. Aims of Health Education.
IV. Objectives of Health Education.
V. Principle of Health Education.
VI. Method of Health Education.
VII. Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of Health
Education.
VIII. Roles of Community Health Nurse in Health Education

17. Conclusion