Human Behavior, Assessment of Community Perception On Health and Health Promotion and Education

Question 1

is the population of behavior exhibited by humans and influence by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics, authority, rapport, hypnosis,
persuasion, coercion and/or genetics

Answer 1

Human Behavior

Question 2

• To identify the most important health problems in a community, the perception of community members about health should be assessed.
• It is important that all sectors of the community are involved in these assessments

Answer 2

Assessing community perception about health

Question 3

• One way to find out what people think
• Frequently, it may be difficult
  for community members devise their own questionnaires and the
  information collected may
  require sophisticated analysis.
• Because the questions must be defined before the information is collected, the information will be limited to these issues.
• may not therefore
  be flexible enough to include
  other issues of importance to
  the community.

Answer 3

Questionnaires

Question 4

• Because of the limitations of
  questionnaires, a number of other techniques have been developed.
• They are often grouped together and referred to as a participatory rural (or rapid) appraisal.
• The techniques allow the community itself to develop areas for discussion, rather than using questionnaire responses to define the
  topics.
• These techniques are sometimes used with
  questionnaires: by asking the same question in different ways during community discussions, issues raised by
  questionnaire respondents can be verified.
• They are briefly discussed below to provide an idea of how such techniques may be used.

Answer 4

Participatory approaches

Question 5

cover a range of techniques, including key informant interviews, group discussions and observations

Answer 5

Participatory approaches

Question 6

• are discussed with key people within a community who have a special interest in, or responsibility for improving health
• include women’s leaders,
  youth leaders, religious leader and health workers.

Answer 6

Key informant interviews

Question 7

is a technique that brings together groups of people to discuss a particular issue, often in an informal setting

Answer 7

Focus Group Discussion

Question 8

● help the group to identify key issues related to the topic under discussion, while allowing sufficient flexibility to cover all aspects of the topic to everyone

● To help foster agreement about the key issues, it is better to establish a goal or objective that the whole group
agrees with from the outset.

Answer 8

Group Facilitator

Question 9

when a person has become
dependent on a substance, he or she will need medical assistance to stop using
the substance

Answer 9

Detoxification

Question 10

• People who engage in risky
  activities do so for many reasons, some of which may relate to other problems in their life or in their society.
• People who abuse substances or drink too much alcohol may do so not only to get a “buzz” or “high” but also because they have problems
  in their personal or family life or because they feel marginalized

Answer 10

Changing risky behavior

Question 11

• In addition to working with people who engage in risky behavior, it is important to work with communities to develop strategies and knowledge for preventing it.
• As with many health issues,
  prevention is much better than trying to treat problems after they occur.
• The whole community should be encouraged to participate in defining the impacts and problems associated with risky
  behaviors, and to discuss how they can be reduced or prevented.
• It is especially important that children have access to information about the impact of risky behavior on their health and on the well-being of their community.

Answer 11

Health Education