Principles of Health promotion Health education

2.  Health education in science of
medicine and art of general
education
 It involves, inculcating habits
of healthful living-Attaining
optimum possible health

3. 1. Credibility
2. Interest
3. Participation
4. Motivation
5. Comprehension
6. Reinforcement
7. Learning by doing
8. Know to unknown
9. Setting an example
10. Good human relation
11. Feedbacks
12. Leaders

4.  Good health education must be
consistence, and compatible with
scientific knowledge and also with
local culture, education system.
 The message should be trust worthy
and acceptable

5. Health educator must find
the real health needs of the
people
People accept it only if is
their own program i.e.,
address their needs.

6.  Participation is the keyword based
on the psychological principle of
learning.
 Participation of the people tends to
create.
• Involvement
• Acceptance
• Decision making

7.  In every person, there is a fundamental
desire to learn, awakening their desire
is called motivation
 Primary motives: less, hunger , survival.
 Secondary motives: Praise, love , rivalry,
reward, punishment etc.

8. I health education we must know the level of
understanding, education and literacy if its
people to whom the teaching directed.
 We should communicate in a language people
understand.
 Teaching should be within the mental
capacity if the audience.

9. If there is no reinforcement,
there is a chance of going
back to pre-awareness
stage.
Repetition at interval is
necessary.

10.  Learning is an action process, not a
memorizing one in the narrow sense.
 Chinese proverb
I hear, I forget,
I see, I remember,
I do, I know.

11. Health education must be proceeded
 From known to unknown.
 From concrete to abstract.
 From particular to general.
 From simple to complex.
 From easy to more difficult.

12.  The heath educator should a good
example in this things he is
teaching
 If he is explaining the hazards of
smoking, he will not be very
successful if he himself smokes.

13.  Sharing of information, ideas and feelings
happens most easily between people who
have a good relationship.
 Building good relationship with people goes
hand in hand with developing communication
skills.

14.  Feedback is one of the key concepts of
the system approach.
Feed back cycle
i. Discover issue
ii. Analyse cause
iii. Create options
iv. Commit to action
v. Evaluate performance
vi. Improvement

15.  In the work of health education, we try to
penetrate the community through the local
leaders, village hand man, the school teacher
or the political worker.
 Leaders are agents of change, and they can
be made use of in the health education work.

16. 1 Knowledge and skills actively
required.
1 Knowledge instilled in the
minds of people.
2 Make people think for
themselves.
2 Prevent or discourage thinking
by ready made slogans.
3 Disciplines primitive desires. 3 Arouses and simulates
primitives desires.
4 Appeals to reason. 4 Appeals to emotion.
5 Develop individuality,
personality and self
expression.
5 Develops a standard pattern of
attitudes and behavior
according to the mauled used .
6 Knowledge acquired through
self reliant activity.
5 Knowledge is spoon-fed and
passively received.

17. Thank you
- Md Moinuddin
Lecture in family welfare
Dep't of community medicine