OPERATIONAL FOUNDATATION OF HEALTH EDUCATION Flashcards
▰ A state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being,
and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (WHO
Constitution of 1948)
Health
▰ the process by which individuals and groups of peoples learn
to behave in a manner conducive to the promotion,
maintenance or restoration of health
Health Education
“A process in encouraging people to want to be healthy,
to know how to stay healthy,
to do what they can individually and collectively to maintain health, and to seek help when needed.”
Health Education
(Alma-Ata, 1978)
▰ Not limited to the dissemination of health-related information but also fostering the motivation, skills and confidence (self-
efficacy) necessary to take action to improve health.. as well as the communication of information concerning the underlying social, economic and environmental conditions impacting on health, as well as individual risk factors and risk behaviors, and use of the health care system. (WHO)
Health Education
▰ To positively influence the health behavior of individuals and communities as well as the living and working conditions that influence their health.
PURPOSE OF HEALTH EDUCATION
is a social science that draws from the biological, environmental, psychological, physical, and medical sciences to promote health and prevent disease, disability, and premature death through education-driven voluntary behavior change activities.
Health education
is the development of individual, group, institutional, community and systemic strategies to improve health knowledge, attitudes, skills and behavior
Health education
The purpose of ________________________ is to positively influence the health behavior of individuals and communities as well as the living and working conditions that influence their health.
health education
IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH EDUCATION
- Improves the health status of individuals, families, communities, states, and the nation
- Enhances the quality of life for all people
- Reduces premature deaths
- By focusing on prevention, it reduces the costs (financial and human) that individuals, employers, families, insurance companies, medical facilities, communities, the state, and the nation would spend on medical treatment
ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE
HEALTH EDUCATOR
- Promote, maintain, and improve individual and community health byassisting individuals and communities to adopt healthy behaviors
- Collect and analyze data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage health lifestyles and environments
- May serve as a resource to assist individuals, other professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs
▰ Seeks the application of a scientific attitude and methodology in deciding about strategies to employ instructional materials to use and other best practices.
Teaching as a Science
▰ A way a teacher expresses his/her emotions and communicates his/her feelings through his/her teachings.
Teaching as an Art
▰ A conglomeration of one’s talents, skills, expertise in reaching out, and enriching the students’ lives.
Teaching as an Art
brings “democratic participation, equality, and empowerment to learners and help transform and liberate societies” (Le Ha,
2014,).
THE TEACHING AND LEARNING
PROCESS
Student-centered learning
Do not mean that students are left alone by the teachers.
THE TEACHING AND LEARNING
PROCESS
Student-centered learning
Entail developing students’ ability to become their own teachers” (Goodyear & Dudley, 2015), which means that teachers should support students and help them learn how to learn, how to help one another, how to negotiate, how to be resilient when things get tough, and how to find solutions when they do not know what to do (Hattie, 2012).
THE TEACHING AND LEARNING
PROCESS
Student-centered learning
The goal is to “create the learning experiences that empower pupils to practice the skills they need to feel competent to engage in physical activity in contexts beyond the school” (Haerens et al., 2011).
THE TEACHING AND LEARNING
PROCESS
▰ This idea demands active teachers who take responsibility for dynamically guiding students through their own teaching-learning process.
THE TEACHING AND LEARNING
PROCESS
“A change in human disposition or capability that persists over a period of time and is not simply ascribable to processes of growth.”
The Conditions of Learning by Robert Gagne
Learning
“Transformative process of taking in information that—when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced—changes what we know and builds on what we do. It’s based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes
us.”
The New Social Learning by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner
Learning
“The process of gaining knowledge and expertise.”
The Adult Learner by Malcolm Knowles
Learning
Components of the Educational Process
Teacher
Learner
Content/Teaching
Strategies
Learning Environment Curriculum
Instructional
Materials
Administration
Is a structured system of organizational and didactic measures aimed at performing requirements of a definite educational level according to the state standards of higher education
Educational Process
change in human disposition or capability that persists over a period of time and is not simply ascribable to processes of growth. (Gagne, 1985)
Learning
