SUBJECT- Behavioural Science
TOPIC- Health Education
FACILITATOR- Mr. Lema
PRESENTORSIntroduction- Suzana Masubi
Definition & Objectives- Aisha Mussa
Definition and Purpose -Melissa Coelho
Health Promotion- Habiba Abasi
Aspects of health promotion-Dishan Mandania
Importance of health education- Zeenat Juneja
Method of health education- Melissa Coelho
Approaches of health education- Urvashi solanki
Health educators- Sabene Kadogosa
Role of health educators-Sandra Raymond
Content of health education- Zuhra Nassor
Summary-Reetisha Mehta
Conclusion and recommendation-Urvashi Solanki
 Introduction
 Objectives
 Definition of
terms
 Main Discussion
 Summary
 Conclusion
 Recommendations
 References
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Health is any combination of learning experiences designed
to help individuals and communities to improve their health
education by increasing their knowledge or influencing their
attitudes
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In normal medical care practice people think of treating other
than preventing, health education is the effective mean which
reduces rate of infected people and those infected prevent
them from spreading the diseases to uninfected .
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Factors hindering health education are like environmental
factors, work or activities of people in which one is engaged,
culture, etc.
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Therefore we should work more on prevention as it is cheaper
than curing.
 What
is health education and health promotion?
 What are aspects of health education?
 Why is health education important?
 Who are health educators?
 Where are health educators employed and what
do they do?
 The role of the health educator
 Content of health education
Health
 Is a complete state of physical, mental and social well
being and not merely the absence of disease. (WHO)
Education
• The act or process of imparting or acquiring general
knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and
judgment, and generally of preparing oneself intellectually
for mature life.
• A process of teaching, training and learning, especially in
school or college to improve knowledge and skills.
Information-means knowledge of specific events or
situations that has been gathered or received by
communication; intelligence or news.
-knowledge that you get about someone or something :
facts or details about a subject
 Modification- Is the science of life or living matter in all its
forms and phenomena, especially with reference to origin,
growth, reproduction, structure, and behavior.
-is a change or alteration, usually to make something work
better.
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WHAT IS HEALTH EDUCATION?
 Is any combination of learning experiences designed to
help individuals and communities improve their health, by
increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes
and behaviors. (WHO)
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Is a social science that draws from the biological,
environmental, psychological, physical and medical
sciences to promote health and prevent diseases,
disabilities and premature deaths through educationdriven voluntary behavior change activities.
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The purpose of health education is to positively influence
the health behavior of individuals and communities as well
as the living and working conditions that influence their
health.
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Is the process of enabling people to increase control over
and improve their health (WHO).
Is the science and art of helping people to change their life
style to move towards the state of optimal
health(American Journal Health Promotion).
It move beyond a focus of an individual behaviour
towards a wide range of social and environmental
interaction.
Primary means of health promotion occur through
developing public policy that address the prerequisites of
health such as income, housing, food security,
employment and quality of working condition.
Health education has two main aspects:
 Information
 Awareness and modification
 INFORMATION: Provides essential facts
which helps to
improve health behaviour and health status of an
individual, families, communities, states and nations.
Information sometimes cannot lead to change in
behaviour of an individual . For instance a patient
might know alcohol consumption may led to brain
damage but they cannot stop enough though they try.
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AWARENESS AND MODIFICATION: It also helps an
individual after providing health education to be aware of
consequence of disease. Hence individual may replace
bad behaviour with good ones. Also individual may be told
to modify by providing adequate instructions, though few
archive. Incase of smoking weed, few individual stops
even after providing them with health knowledge
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 (both
financial and human) that individuals, employers, families,
insurance companies, medical facilities, communities, the
state and the nation would spend on medical treatment
 It is important as it allows people to know how to take care
of themselves
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It establishes people’s awareness, skills and encourages
them to adopt positive attitude towards their well being.
 It motivates youth to improve and maintain their health,
prevent diseases and avoid unhealthy behaviour
 It builds students knowledge, skills and positive attitudes
about health. Health education teaches about physical,
mental, emotional and social health. It motivates students
to improve and maintain their health, prevent disease and
reduce risky behaviour
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Individual approach
Mass approach
Group approach
Health educator is a professional that educates
people about health and the areas that this
person deals with are:
• Environmental health
• Physical health
• Social health
• Intellectual health
• Spiritual health
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Schools
Hospitals
Universities
Community organizations
Ambulatory health care services
Government
Social media
Although most health educators work in offices, they may
spend a lot of time away from the office to carry out
programmes or attend meetings.
Community health workers spend much time, even
overtime, in the field communicating with community
members, holding events and collecting data.
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Administer health education strategies, interventions and
programs
Serve as a health education resource person
Communicate and advocate for health and health education
Implement health education strategies, interventions and
programs
Conduct evaluation and research related to health education
Plan health education strategies, interventions and programs
Assess individual and community needs for health education
Coordinate the provision of health education services
Act as a resource person for health education programs
They deal more with the promotion of healthy habits and
environment
Nutrition- to guide people to choose optimum balance
diet
 Personal hygiene- to promote personal cleanliness
 Mental health- to prevent mental breakdown
 Human biology- to keep them physically fit
 Family health care- to improve quality of life as family
 Safety rules- to prevent accidents
 Use of health services- to public about health services
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Health education is the profession of educating people
about health. It can be defined as the principle by which
individuals and groups of people learn to behave in a
manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance, or
restoration of health. It can be disseminated either formally
or informally taking individual, group or mass approach.
Areas within this profession encompass environmental
health, physical health, social health, emotional health,
intellectual health, and spiritual health.
Health education is important to make people aware of
different ways of maintaining physical activity and fitness,
nutrition and weight control, stress reduction process,
health conditions like blood pressure and cholesterol
control, reduction of unhealthy lifestyle such as drug abuse,
alcohol intake and smoking.
 Since prevention is better than cure, health education
provide a means to help prevent a disease
 Therefore health education plays an important role in
helping individuals change their behaviour and lifestyle.
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Even though health education is very important, the
people will never benefit from it, if individual don't
put in any effort to try and modify their behaviours.
 Other factors which hinder health education are:i.
poverty (eg failure to access mass media or set up
program
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Religion factor( ie some religion despise use of
condom which hinder HIV control)
iii. Environmental factors (ie lack of access of water )
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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_is_health_education_import
ant_and_how_do_you_become_a_good_health_educator
education.nh.gov/instruction/school_health/health_coord_education.
htm
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https://www.kent.edu/ehhs/his/hedp- definition
www.who.int/topics/health_education/en/
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/education
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/information
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/modification
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