Health Education and Health Promotion [2026] Flashcards
“Health education is a process that bridges the gap between health information and health practice”
(Presidents Committee on Health Education, 1973)
It was designed to improve health literacy, knowledge, and life skills which are conducive to individual and community health
HEALTH EDUCATION
HEALTH EDUCATION
Can be take place in various settings:
o Health care stings
o Schools
o Communities
o Workplace
“Process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.” (WHO)
HEALTH PROMOTION
About improving our health
HEALTH PROMOTION
“State of complete, physical, mental, and
social well-being rather than a mere absence of disease
WHO
HEALTH PROMOTION
There are varieties of factors that have an impact to our health:
o Social
o Environmental
o Economic conditions
It tries to improve health not only by targeting people at individual level to change their behavior but by taking a comprehensive approach addressing a broad spectrum of health factors and determinants
Health promotion
There are many action areas to promote health:
- Policies and laws that support and promotes health
- Community or groups that promote health
- Promoting health in different online programs that may provide information on different diseases
Requires everyone to wear seatbelts or helmets, smoking restrictions in public areas)
o Policies and laws that support and promotes health
Community fun runs that promote people to be active, community kitchen that promote healthy eating
o Community or groups that promote health
Webinars that teach people how to manage and prevent certain disease
o Promoting health in different online programs that may provide information on different diseases
MODELS IN HEALTH EDUCATION AND PROMOTION
- Precede-Proceed
- PATCH
- MATCH
- Intervention Mapping
- APEXPH
- PEN-3 Model
MODELS IN HEALTH EDUCATION AND PROMOTION GOAL?
Goal: to create a health program that promote health in a
community
MODELS IN HEALTH EDUCATION AND PROMOTION
Differs in approach;
assessing the problem and
implementation of health program
One of the best known and most used planning models in community and public health
PRECEDE – PROCEED
PRECEDE means
PRECEDE
Predisposing,
Reinforcing, and
Enabling
Constructs in
Educational/Ecological
Diagnosis and
Evaluation
Precede Purpose:
Generate objectives that will be targeted in future health programs
- By collecting information regarding a community or group of people that will aid us in decision making to implement a health program
- Assess the target population
Precede
PROCEED means
Policy,
Regulatory, and
Organizational
Constructs in
Educational and
Environmental
Development
PROCEED purpose:
Meet the objectives identified in the PRECEDE phase
How to know if the objectives are achieved:
Thru the implementation and evaluation of health programs
The first four steps are the precede phase
Step 1. Social assessment and situational analysis
Step 2. Epidemiological assessment
Step 3. Educational and ecological assessment
Step 4. Intervention alignment and administrative and policy assessment
- We are looking or assessing the causes of a health issues in the community to see what interventions or programs can be implement to address the problem
- It represents the process that happens before the implementation of health programs
The first four steps are the precede phase (steps 1-4)
o We are looking for the thing that come after identifying the problem in a community
o Refers to the implementation and evaluation of the health program
The last 4 steps are the proceed phase (steps 1-4)
o Evaluation of current quality of life of the target population.
o We can know if the majority of the population is facing low income levels or if there are no opportunities of physical activities that result to health problems
o We will consult the people in the community what hinders their quality of life
Step 1. Social assessment and situational analysis
HIGHLIGHT:
- Evaluation
- Consultation
(SASA)
o Identify health problems that are contributing or interacting to the quality of life concerns identified in the social assessment
o Identify determinants that cause the health problem
Step 2. Epidemiological assessment
(EA)
o In identifying the determinants, we can accomplish it thru 2 tasks:
5D
Genetics, behaviors, and environment
5D
- Death, Disease, Disability, Discomfort, and Dissatisfaction