Health EducationBy

Dr. Hamda Qotba ,B.Med.Sc, M.D, ABCM

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What is Health Education???

• Process that informs, motivates, and helps people to adopt and maintain healthy practices and life styles.

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Objectives

• Informing people

• Motivating people

• Guiding into action

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Approach to public health

• Regulatory approach

• Service approach

• Educational approach

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New ideas and practices

• Awareness

• Interest

• Evaluation

• Trial

• Adoption

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Principles

• Interest

• Participation

• Known to unknown

• Comprehension

• Reinforcement

• Motivation

• Learning by doing

• Soil, seed, sower

• Good human relation

• Leaders

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Communication

• Communicator

• Message

• Audience

• Channels of communication

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Communication barriers• Physiological

• Difficulties in hearing, expression

• Psychological• Emotional disturbance

• Environmental• Noise, invisibility

• Cultural• Knowledge, custom, believe, religion

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Practice of health education• Individual and family• Education to general public

• T.V• Radio • Press• Films• Health magazine• Posters• Health exhibition• Health museum

Mass media is less effective in changing human behavior

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Group health education

• Lectures• Film and charts• Group discussion• Panel discussion• Symposium•Workshop

• Institute• Role playing• Demonstration• Programmed

instruction• Stimulation and

exercise

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