Health

Education
.Prof
Nashwa Radwan
Radwan_n_m@hotmail.com
Impact of behavior on
health
 Direct effect.
Self care, preventive behavior, diet, physical
fitness.
 Indirect effect.

Utilization of health services,

environmental control.
Factors affecting behavior
change
:(Leading)
predisposing
factors (Motivating) Enabling
Knowledge. factors
Attitude. Available resources
Believes. Accessibility to services.
Skilled health worker.

(Supporting)
Reinforcing factors
Family, friends.
Neighbors.
Doctors.
Nurses.
Stages of behavior
:change
1. Stage of awareness.
2. Stage of interest.
3. Stage of evaluation.
4. Stage of trial.
5. Stage of adoption.
 Behavior changes resulting from education,
information, and knowledge of alternatives
and consequences is defined as voluntary
adaptation.
:Definition

 HE is any combination of learning

experiences designed to predispose,
enable and reinforce voluntary
adaptations of individual or collective
behavior conductive to health.
:Definition

 HE is a process that informs, motives

and helps people to adopt and
maintain healthy practices and
lifestyle and advocates
environmental changes needed to
facilitate this goal.
Patient education

 Is initiated by medical personnel to

strengthen the motivation and ability of the
patients to adhere to prescribed medical
regimens and self care.
School health education

 Is initiated and directed by personnel in the

preschool, school or college to develop the
motivation and skills required by students to
cope with challenges to health and to build
foundations of knowledge required for further
health.
Health promotion

 Any combination of educational,

organizational, economic and environmental
supports for behavior and conditions of living
conductive to health.
:Objectives

1. Informing people.
2. Motivating people.
3. Guiding into action.
Components of health education
Components of health
education
 Educator: has especial purpose needed to
achieve.
 Recipient: either individual or group of
individuals.
 Message: the idea or information prepared
in special method.
 Method used by the educator. It differs
according to the message and its contents.
Requirements of good
educator
 Leadership abilities.
 Efficient personality.
 Popular person.
 Ideal behavior.
 Interest in work.
 Background knowledge of public health psychology and sociology.
 Know the characteristics of the recipients e.g. their education,
occupation, living conditions, culture.
Requirements of the
message
 The included data must be correct and scientifically
based.
 The content should not contradict with traditions and
ethics of the community.
 The content must be suitable with the mental abilities of
the recipients (depending on age, education, culture).
 The content must touch the health needs of the
recipients.
 The message must focus on the lovely aspect of
acceptability.
Methods of health
:education
1. Methods of giving information.
2. Methods of conversation.
3. Methods of confidence.
4. Methods of learning and training.
Methods of giving
:information
 Radio.
 TV.
 Lectures.
 Newspaper.
 Posters.
 Books.
 Booklets.
Methods of
:conversation

 Individual meeting.
 Counseling.
 Role playing.
: Methods of confidence

 Counseling.
 Discussion in group.
 Role playing.
Methods of learning and
:training

 Models.
 Learning by doing.
Types of approach

 Direct:
Face to face (communication).
 Indirect:

Community organization.
Mass media.
Definition

 It is a process of exchange of ideas and

information between two persons or more
through effective way to achieve both
general and special purpose.
 Communication is a key skill in getting
what you need from life. It is basically the
sending and receiving of messages.
Face to face

 More attention and attraction.

 More convention.
 Content are more flexible.
 Limited covering.
Mass media

 Using the different mass media for

communication with people to transfer the
message of health education.
Community organization

 Formal leaders: doctors

 Informal leaders: famous people.
 Arousing interest of people in their health.
 Making people feel their own health problems
 Creating confidence of public in health
services.
planning a health education
program
Community diagnosis
 Social diagnosis.
 Epidemiological diagnosis.
 Behavioral diagnosis.
 Educational diagnosis.
 Administrative diagnosis.

This is called PRECEDE model

Predisposing, Reinforcing and Enabling Constructs in
.Educational Diagnosis and Evaluation
 PROCEED model

Policy, Regulatory and Organizational

Constructs in Educational and
.Environmental Development
Principles of Health
:Education
 Interest.
 Participation.
 Education should start from the known and
lead the people to the unknown.
 Comprehension.
 Reinforcement or repetition of information.
 Motivation.
 Learning by doing.
 Good human relationship.
 Leaders.
Elements of health
:education
 Sound health habits.
 Personal hygiene.
 Healthful lifestyle.
 Nutrition education.
 Sex education.
 Patient education.