Health Education program at BK Nagar primary School, Mathikere, Bangalore. Topics - ‘Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse’ and 'First Aid'

1. INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL BENGALURU
HEALTH EDUCATION AT BK NAGAR PRIMARY SCHOOL
STUDENT NAME AND MATRIX NUMBER HANIS AFIQAH BINTI SAHROM
(082014100007)
NUR FADZLINA (082013100006)
LIYANA ZAYANI (082012100011)
GROUP: BATCH A YEAR 4( 2017)
ROTATION NO: 3
POSTING DATE: 2nd MARCH 2017
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT & POSTING
COORDINATOR OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE
DR. S.P. SURYANARAYANA
DR. CHANDANI
COMMUNITY MEDICINE -YEAR 4

2. Contents
OBJECTIVES ...................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................4
ACTIVITIES.....................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION.................................................................................................6
RECOMMENDATION ......................................................................................6
APPENDICES ..................................................................................................7

3. OBJECTIVES
 To build students' knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes about health
 To teach about physical, mental, emotional and social health. It motivates students
to improve and maintain their health, prevent disease, and reduce risky behaviors.
 To help students learn skills they will use to make healthy choices throughout their
lifetime
 Health education promotes learning in other subjects which is not covered in lecture
class
 Increase health knowledge and to create positive attitudes towards own well being
but also to promote healthy behaviour

4. INTRODUCTION
Health education is a type of education designed for individuals or the public at large to gain
the knowledge, skills, value, and attitudes necessary to promote, maintain, improve, and
restore their, or another person's health.
The World Health Organization defined Health Education as " 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.
Health education in its modern form started to come into existence around the 1970s, with
the creation of the President's Committee on Health Education. This was created by none
other than President Richard Nixon. Thereafter, more important developments began to
occur, including the creation of a National Center for Health Education in 1975, as well as
the creation of the Department of Education and the modern version of the Department of
Health and Human Services around 1980. Thus began the true modern era of health
education in the U.S.
The whole point of health education is to draw knowledge from many different sources,
including biology, medicine, ecology and many others. The knowledge sourced from these
and other fields is then used to promote a person’s health, prevent disease, and perhaps
eve cure a person of their ailment. Health education strives to develop key knowledge and
skill sets in individual, skills and attitudes. In short, health education strives to positively
influence the health behaviours of the public at large and the level of the individual. It
serves to positively affect or educate a person about their work environment as well as their
natural sorrounding one that may impact their health.

5. ACTIVITIES
On 2nd March 2017, 18 students of IMS Bangalore accompanied by Dr Chandani, Dr
Suryanarayan and Mr Satish from community medicine department participate in health
education. This health education has been conducted in BK Nagar Primary School from
10.30am till 2.00pm.
Two group is divided with different topics, which is – ‘ Reduce, Recycle and Reuse’ and ‘First
Aid’
Group 1 delivered a topic of ‘Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse’. An introduction was given , and
accompanied by show performance. Later on, the group had games and quizzes regarding
the topic. Gifts were given to the student for the correct answer.
Group 2 delivered a topic of ‘First Aid’. Topic is delivered by a pantomime show. At the end
of the show, students who respond to the question will be given gifts as well.

6. CONCLUSION
In a nutshell, visiting to the BK Nagar Primary School is a memorable and beneficial activity
conducted by MSU-IMS Bangalore students. Two groups from our university deliver
fantastics health education topics on ‘Reduce, Recycle and Reuse’ and ‘First Aid’. We are
warmly welcomed by the school principal, teachers and students. Our objectives are met
during the programme. We had a question-answer session and the students enjoyed it, they
were given gifts for the correct answer.
RECOMMENDATION
I would like to recommend this programme to be repeated in the future because it is
one of the ways to educate our society. Some topics might seems simple but the awareness
that we create when they are in primary school is valuable. Besides that, it is exciting when
two different races with different cultures met in a programme. We also learnt how their
education system works as well.

7. APPENDICES