The document discusses different approaches to health education, including individual, group, and community approaches. It defines health education according to the WHO as any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health. The individual approach involves personal contact through home visits, interviews, and letters to understand attitudes, clear doubts, and identify barriers. The group approach educates groups of 20-25 members through discussion to help them think about, discuss, decide on, and follow up decisions. Community health education aims to create awareness, help communities understand health problems and needs, find alternative solutions, implement them, and provide feedback.

1. HEALTH EDUCATION WITH
INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY AND
COMMUNITY
-RAKSHA YADAV
B.Sc Hons. Nursing 4th Year
AIIMS Jodhpur

2. CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Definition of health education
 Approaches to health education:
Individual approach
Group approach
Health education with community
 Summary
 Conclusion

3.  A proverb says- “You can lead a horse to the water,
but you can’t make him drink, unless he wants to”
but the concept has improved upon and nowadays
“Make the horse thirsty, before you take him and
show the water”.
 In other words make the people realize that health is
most valuable asset which will shape their activities.
Then it is easy task for health professionals to enrich
people with health education

4. As per WHO-
“Health education is any combination of learning
experiences designed to help individuals and
communities improve their health, by increasing their
knowledge or influencing their attitudes”.

6. 1. INDIVIDUAL APPROACH
 Personal contact/face to face discussion
 To:
 Understand client attitudes
 Clear their doubts
 Correct misconceptions
 Identify & remove barriers in the way of adapting
health practices

7. Steps to individual approach include-
> Planning for visit
> Conducting individual interview
> Follow up
INDIVIDUAL APPROACH
Personal contact
Home visits
Personal letters

8. 2. GROUP HEALTH EDUCATION
 Group size should be < 20-25 members
 It is based on the principle that the members of the
group are helped to think, discuss, decide and then
follow up their decisions by action

9. Methods of group health education:

10. 3. Health education in community
 It is meant for a defined community:
 To create awareness
 To help people understand their health problems and
needs
 To find alternative solution, implement them
 Evaluate and get feedback
 Health education in community requires support of local
leaders who are influential and have people’s support
(Sarpanch, Patwari, School teacher etc)

11. Target populations:-
Although intervention strategy is community based,
interventions target specific populations & it includes-
 Identifying specific population
 Assessing shared risk behaviors
 And making education plan accordingly

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15. ANY QUESTIONS??