1 - HEALTH EDUCATION PERSPECTIVE Flashcards
Communication of information about knowledge, skills, and values of society in each succeeding generation to help them acquire the intellectual and practical methods to function in the society.
Education
Concept of Health: A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses
Hippocrates
Concept of Health: Good health and prevention and treatment of illness through lifestyle practices such as massage, meditation, yoga, and dietary charges and the use of herbal remedies
Ancient India Ayurveda
Concept of Health: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of a disease or infirmity
WHO, 1948
Concept of Health: A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities
WHO, 1986
what are the three types of health?
- physical health
- mental health
- social health
what are the factors that have an impact on health?
- Genetic factors
- Social and economic factors
- Environmental factors
- Cultural issues
Concepts of Health Education: Communication activity aimed at enhancing positive health and preventing or diminishing ill-health in individuals and groups through influencing the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of those with power and of the community at large
Downie, Fye, and Tannahill, 1990
Concepts of Health Education: 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
WHO, 1998
Concepts of Health Education: It is any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound theories that provide individuals, groups, and communities the opportunity to acquire information and the skills needed to make quality health decisions
Joint Committee in Health Education and Promotion Terminology, 2001
Concepts of Health Education: Any planned combinations of learning experiences designed to predispose, enable, and reinforce voluntary behavior conducive to health in individuals, groups, and communities
Green and Kreuter, 2005
A professionally prepared individual who serves in a variety of rules and is specifically trained to use appropriate educational strategies and methods to facilitate the development of policies, procedures, interventions, and systems conducive to the health of individuals, groups, and communities (Joint Committee on Health Education and Promotion Terminology, 2001)
Health Educator
what are the 8 areas of responsibility?
- assessment of needs and capacity
- planning
- implementation
- evaluation and research
- advocacy
- communications
- leadership and management
- ethics and professionalism
area of responsibility: Target population
Status of community
Available resources
Programs and policies
assessment of needs and capacity
area of responsibility: Define desired results
Strategies and information
planning
area of responsibility: Coordinate deliberate interventions
Execution
implementation
area of responsibility: Effects on the audience
Results for research
Assessing the results
evaluation and research
area of responsibility: speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause
advocacy
area of responsibility: Determine communication goals
Message
Medium for communication
communications
area of responsibility: Promote or manage people to educate others
leadership and management
area of responsibility: Inline with the Code of Ethics
ethics and professionalism
who drafted the code of ethics?
Coalition of National Health Education Organizations (CNHEO)
Code of Ethics
- Responsibility to the public
- Responsibility to the profession
- Responsibility to employers
- Responsibility in the delivery of health education/promotion
- Responsibility in research and evaluation
- Responsibility in professional preparation and continuing education
Process of attending to people’s needs, experiences and feelings, and intervening so that they learn particular things, and so beyond the given (Mark K. Smith, 2018)
Concept of Teaching
Concept of Learning: Learning is not the product of teaching, learning is the product of the activity of the learners
John Holt
Concept of Learning: Learning as the mental activity by which knowledge and skills, habits, and attitudes, virtues and ideas are acquired, retained, and utilized resulting in the progressive adoption and modification of conduct and behavior
Okoye, 2010
any type of work, especially one that needs a high level of education or a particular skill
Profession
- Requires intensive education and training
- Licensed and certified
- Has an effective entry procedure
- Guided by some codes of conduct
- Strong bodies protecting its interest
- Independent and has freedom of practice
- Life-chosen career for its practitioner
- Highly regarded in society
Characteristics of a Profession
what are the four Cs?
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Creativity and innovation
