Health Education

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• leading out what people already know, believe and do about their health; developing desirable behaviors that are conducive to health
• providing learning experiences to people that they may be able to define their health problems and take needed actions

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Health education

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Health education should be veiwed within:

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1. The changing contrxt of health and disease
2. The changing health picture where lifestyles play important role
3. W/n the accepted definitions of health

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“Bridging the gap b/w health info and health practice”

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President committee 1973

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“Changing behaviors that are presumed to be detrimental to health, to behaviors that are conducive to present & future health”

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Simmonds 1976

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“Facilitating voluntary adaptations of behavior conducive to health”

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Green 1980

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categories of health behavior

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Preventive health behavior
Illness behavior
Sick role behavior

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Undertaken by healthy individual for preventing/detecting illness

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Preventive health illness

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Undertaken by ill indv to define state of health and to find remedy

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Illness behavior

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Undertaken by ill idv to get well; tx; exemption from usual resp

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Sick role behavior

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Major foundations of health education

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Philosophical
Biomedical
Behavioral science

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The science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move towards a state of optimal

Any combi of HE, and related organizational, political, and economic intervention designed to facilitate behavioral and env changes to health

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Health promotion

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“Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health”

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WHO 1986

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Lifestyle change can be facilitated thru a combi of efforts:

1. Enhance awareness
2. Change behavior
3. Create environments that support good health practices

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Michael O’Donnell 1989

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“Health promotion is the combination of educational and enviromental supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to health”

“Any combi of learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary actions conducive to health”

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Green,L & Kreuter M. 1990, 1991

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Strategies of health promotion

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1. Build healthy public policies
2. Strengthen community action
3. Create supportive environment
4. Develop personal skills
5. Reorient health services

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Principles of health promotion

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1. Involves the population as a whole innthe context of their everyday life
2. Action is directed towards determinants or cause of health
3. Combines diverse but complementary methods/approaches
4. Aims particularly at effective and concrete public participation
5. Primarily a societal and political venture; not a medical service

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Processes in HE and HP

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Learning process
Communication process
Change process

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Theories of learning

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Behaviorist
Cognitive
Humanist

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Behaviorist theories

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Pavlov’s classical conditioning
Skinner’s operant conditioning
Thorndike’s law of exercise and law of effect

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Unconditioned stimulus with a stimulus

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Pavlov’s classical conditioning

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Certain acts are assoc w/ a reinforcement

- positive and negative stimulus

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Skinner’s operant conditioning

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The more freq the stimulus-response connection is used, the strogner the assoc

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Thorndike’s law of exercise

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Stimulus-reaction connection is strengthened when a positive feedback follows it, and it is weakened when punishment follows it

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Thorndike’s law of effect

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“Mental image”; reorganization, reconstruction of perceptions and events

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Tolman’s cognitive mapping

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Observing events, people or situations in the social env

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Vicarious learning

Bandura’s social cognitive theory

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Indv and env inlfuence each other

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Reciprocal determinism

Bandura’s social cognitive theory

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A behavior will produce a specified effect

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Outcoome efficacy expectations

Bandura’s social cognitive theory

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One’s belief in his ability to perform behavior

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Self efficacy

Bandura’s social cognitive theory