UNIT 1

• Health education is a process of teaching and learning with specific steps, a systematic approach, and desired outputs of knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
• Health, according to WHO, is a state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
• Health education is a combination of planned learning experiences, using evidence-based practices and shared theories that provide opportunity to acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
• Health education is a process with intellectual, psychological, and social dimensions related to activities that increase the abilities of people to make an informed decision.
• The nurse as a health educator provides basic information for three purposes: promotion and maintenance, prevention of illness, and development of self-reliant behavior.
• Good health is defined as physical health, which includes body functioning, emotional health, coping with stress, mental health, and ability to make sound decisions; social health, which includes not being alone and relating well with others regardless of status; spiritual health, which includes recognizing the presence of God; and health education, which includes planned learning experiences, using evidence-based practices and shared theories.
• Health education is a planned opportunity of learning through information sharing guided by specific goals and objectives, activities, and evaluation criteria.
• Health education occurs in specific settings.
• Health education is a program of a series of events that introduces concepts at appropriate learning levels.
• Health education is based on previous learning in order to determine what is to be learned in the future.
• Health education comprehensively emphasizes interrelatedness of health to qualities of life.
• Health education is an interaction between the qualified educator and the learner.
• Purposes of health education include propagating health promotion and disease prevention, modifying or continuing health behaviors as necessary, providing health information and services, emphasizing good health habits and practices as an integral process aspect of culture, media and technology, communicating vital information to the public, and advocacy.
• Types of health education include biological, health resources, and society.
• Importance of health education includes enhancing knowledge awareness, promoting health safety and security of the people, developing and improving community resources, increasing productivity and strength of one's character, leading to disease prevention, minimizing health care cost, and promoting self-reliant behavior.