SEMIS: HEALTH EDUCATION Flashcards
A process aimed at encouraging people to want and stay to be healthy, individually, and collectively maintain health and seek health when needed
Health Education
Year followed and adopted the alma-ata declaration
1978
Approaches to Health education
- Regulatory approach
- Service Approach
- Health education approach
- Primary health care approach
Either directly or indirectly by governmental intervention designed to alter human behavior
Regulatory approach
It aimed at providing all the health care services needed by people doorstep bu this approach proved a failure
Service approach
People must be educated through planned learning experiences to do and what to do to be informed, educated, and encourage to make their own choice in life
Health Education approach
A new approach started from the people with their full participation with their involvement in the planning and delivery of health services
Primary Healthcare Approach
Models of helath education
- Medical Model
- Motivation Model
- Social Intervention model
This model is concerned with illness and diseases, primarily in the recognition and treatment of disease and technological advances, to facilitate the process
Medical Model
Ge model and process consist of several stages through which an individual is likely to pass before adoption
Motivation model
Stages of motivation model
- Interest
- Evaluation
- Decision making
Last stages of motivation model
Actions
The traditional motivation approach is insufficient to achieve behavioral change. Hence, it is a social environment that needs to be chamge
Social Intervention model
Content of health education:
- Human biology
- Nutrition
- Hygiene
- Family Health
- Desease Prevention & Control
- Mental Health
- Prevention of accidents
- Use of health services
Principles of health education:
- Credibility
- Interest
- Participation
- Motivation
- Comprehension
- Reinforcement
- Learning by doing
- Known to unknown
- Setting an example
- Good human relations
- Feedback
- Leaders
