تمريض

1. Health Education
setting
Dr /Amal Abdrbou Hussien
Assistant professor of Pediatric
Nursing
Faculty of Nursing- Assuit University
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2. Introduction about health education settings
Definition
Criteria for health education setting
Health education settings
1. School.
2. home as health education setting
3. Work site.
4. Working in a college /university campus
5. health care facilities
6. prisons

4. Introduction
The main purpose of health education is offering people and local
community the information, resources and solution they need to
make healthier lifestyle decision, health education is meant to
educate people on the importance of maintaining positive health.

5. Definition of Health education setting:
It is any place in which process of health education take
place
Health education setting
Health education occurs in variety of places
1-Working
2-in a college
3-university
4-campus.
5– Health 6- prison

6. Criteria for health education setting:
1. Good light and good ventilated
2. Away from noise
3. Be comfortable and clear
4. Presence facilities: data show, microphone, poster
5. Good temperature
6. Obtaining approval

7. Working in a college and university campus
Goals of health education in a college and university campus:
1. Improve health.
2. Helping in decision-making about their health
3. Prevention of diseases
4. Fight misconceptions.
5. Promote healthy lifestyle.
6. Supporting academic success

8. Components of a college and university campus health education program:
1. Disease prevention.
2. Environmental, emotional, sexual health.
3. First aid and safety.
4. Substance abuse prevention.
5. Human growth and development.
6. Healthy nutrition.

9. Work sites
-Goals of health education in work site
1. Providing employees with information and resources to
improve their overall health and well-being.
2. Increased productivity as physical and mental health
employees are more likely to be productive in their work.
3. Increasing job satisfaction and reducing absenteeism.
4. Prevention of occupational hazards and injuries

10. Role of the health educator:
• Identifying and assessing the risks to health and safety
in the workplace.
• Making decisions about ways to eliminate or minimize
risks.
• Making decisions about monitoring the health and
safety of workers or conditions at the workplace by
providing information and training for workers on risks
and controls

11. Work site health education program:
1- Smoking and drugs.
2- Nutrition and weight control.
3- Physical activity and fitness.
4- Blood pressure and cholesterol reduction.
5- Stress reduction.
6- Work safety and health

12. 3-School
Objectives of school health education:
1- Early detection and care of students with health
problems
2- Ensure a healthy environment for children at school
3- Development of healthy attitudes and healthy behaviors
by students.
4- Increased success rates.

13. Components of school health program:
1. Dental health. 2. Visual health. 3. Mental health.
4-Nutritional service. 5. First aid and emergency
care.
6. Education of the handicapped children
7. Healthful school environment
8. Prevention of communicable disease.

14. Home setting
The home health care health education may be considered for
people who are:
1. Terminally ill.
2. Undergoing treatment.
3. Recovering from an illness.
4. Chronically ill.
5. The elderly and disabled

15. Purpose of home health care
1. Disabled people are more comfortable at home.
2. Longer lives increase chronic illnesses and need
for care.
3. Patients need short-term care, which is less
expensive in the home.
4. Hospitals discharge earlier and patients still need
care.
5. Most people prefer care at home.

16. Role of the health educator
1- Mobilize its resources to develop, promote, implement
and evaluate strategies to improve its own health.
2- Draw upon its problem-solving abilities.
3- Health educator helps community to identify their
needs.

17. Examples of skilled home health services include:
• Wound care for pressure sores or a surgical wound
• Patient and caregiver education
• Intravenous or nutrition therapy
• Injections
• Monitoring serious illness and unstable health status

18. The prison
Why prison health is important?
1. Prisoners have the same right to health and wellbeing as other
people.
2. Prisoners generally come from socially disadvantaged
segments of community and carry a higher burden of a
communicable and non-communicable disease compared with
the general population.
3. Prisons are the high risks of disease

19. Role of health educator in prison
1-Advice and education on:
• high risk lifestyle as illegal drugs, alcohol, and smoking
• Main nutrition principles.
• Healthy diet plan for chronic ill patients.
• The importance of water.
• Physical activity and its importance for patients health.
• Benefits of a balanced diet.
2- Training and support in psychological skills such as
self-esteem and anger management

20. Health education program in the prison:
a- Needs common to all prisoners:
1. Advice on avoiding STD, HIV
2. Advice on avoiding substance abuse
3. A balanced diet
4. Protection against harm caused by smoking
b- Needs common to most prisoners:
1. Psychological skills training: anger management, thinking
skills
2. Practical skills training: job search skills, parenting
education
Needs common to some prisoners:
1. Advice on specific conditions: diabetes, epilepsy,
menopause.
2. Immunization against TB, influenza.

21. Challenges of implementing health education
programs in prison:
1. Security concern due to strict protocol
2. Limited resources
3. Resistant and negative attitude from inmates
4. Stegma and cultural barrier

22. Health care facilities
Importance of health education in health care facilities:
1. Empowering individual to make informed decision about
their health by providing knowledge and skills.
2. Educating patients to ensure continuity of care and
reduces complications related to the illness.
3. Improve adherence to medication and treatments.
4. Disease prevention: provide information about
importance of vaccination and regular screening.
5. Managing chronic condition: help individuals to
understand their condition, medication and treatment plan

23. Health education program in health care facilities:
1. Maternal and child health program.
2. Diabetes management program.
3. Smoking cessation program.
4. Nutrition and healthy eating program.
5. Physical activity and exercise program.
6. Mental health and stress management
program.