Health Education

By
,Dr. Hamda Qotba
B.Med.Sc, M.D, ABCM
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
• Learning by doing
• Participation
• Soil, seed, sower
• Known to
unknown • Good human
• Comprehension relation
• Leaders
• Reinforcement
• Motivation

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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 Mass media is less effective
• Films
in changing human behavior
• Health magazine
• Posters
• Health exhibition
• Health museum

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 Group health education
• Lectures • Institute
• Film and charts • Role playing
• Group discussion • Demonstration
• Panel discussion • Programmed
instruction
• Symposium
• Stimulation and
• Workshop exercise

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