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Abstract. Context: Health promotion programs generate healthy changes in the educational community. However, not all of them meet the expected objectives due to multiple factors that affect their development, such as the teachers overload work, the lack of specific training, the lack of time to carry out health promotion activities, the lack of flexibility of the programs, and their non ...
reviews health education theories and definitions, identifies the components of evidence-based health education and outlines the abilities necessary to engage in effective practice. Much has been written over the years about the relationship and overlap between health education, health promotion and other concepts, such as health literacy.
First, health is a prerequisite for education: hungry children or children who cannot hear well, or who have chronic toothaches, eg, are hindered in their learning. 5 Second, education about health (ie, health education) occurs within schools and in many public health interventions; it is a central tool of public health. 6 Third, physical education in schools combines education about the ...
Dec 2, 2022 · Introduction Peer education, whereby peers (‘peer educators’) teach their other peers (‘peer learners’) about aspects of health is an approach growing in popularity across school contexts, possibly due to adolescents preferring to seek help for health-related concerns from their peers rather than adults or professionals. Peer education interventions cover a wide range of health areas ...
- Steven Dodd
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Every individual mode of health education has its own merits, drawbacks as well as their own sphere of effectiveness. A specific mode of communication is more useful in a specific setting on a specific group than others. To search for optimum mode of communication for a specific audience is a major area of research in health education. The issue of...
A cross-sectional interviewer administered questionnaire survey was conducted involving 142 randomly selected subjects during the last session of a five-day conference having health as main theme when the opinion of the delegates regarding different communication methods was asked for. Collected data was analyzed not only to find out the optimum mo...
The participants opted more (60%) for focused programs of smaller audience (sectional program). In both broad area (main program) and focused area programs (sectional), the participants preferred lectures (62% and 65.7% respectively). Specific topics were preferred both in lectures (67.6%) and symposia (57.7%). In the exhibition, exhibits seemed to...
This study concluded that while planning for health education dissemination in an educated group a focused programme should be formulated in small groups preferably in the form of lectures on specific topics, more so while dealing with participants of higher age group having higher educational qualification.
- Asim Saha, Era Poddar, Minal Mankad
- 2005
Within the literature, health education has been defined in several ways, with the operational definition ultimately influencing the aims, purpose, and implementation of such education. For example, De Vries et al. (2018) defined health education simplistically, as a process of educating both about health, and the factors which influence this.
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In summary, Health Education: Theoretical concepts, Effective Strategies and Core Competencies highlights the critical contribution of health education to the broader area of health promotion, reviews key theories and tools in the health education and promotion field, and describes health education core competencies and the code of ethics.
