Chapter 1 (health educ)

• The goal of health education is to teach people how to avoid getting diseases and other health problems by looking at their lifestyle, family background, and other risk factors
• Health education is the process of giving someone knowledge and learning experiences that will help them change their behavior in a way that is better for their health
• The nurse talks about how good health habits can help keep people from getting hurt, sick, dying too soon, and other health problems
• Physical health


  • Refers to activities or learning experiences that enhance the body's capacity to function optimally
• Mental health


  • Refers to the methods or tactics that empower an individual to make accurate assessments and decisions
• Spiritual health


  • Engaging in activities that facilitate an individual's acknowledgment and acceptance of the metaphysical dimension of divine healing
• Health Education


  Is a means to communicate vital information to the public
• Health Education

  1. Gives people knowledge, products, and services about health

  2. Shows how to assess health information resources from home, school, and the community

  3. Shows how to access school and community health programs

  4. Helps understand healthcare costs, accessibility, and when professional health services are needed
• Health education


  Asks for help from family and friends to affect a person's health
• Health education


  Looks at how nature and health are connected in ways that improve health and lower client risk
• Emotional health


  • Refers to engaging in activities that help individuals effectively manage the pressures and challenges of their daily lives
• Health Education

  1. Encompasses educational activities aimed at fostering behaviors that contribute to optimal health

  2. Offers the resources for cultivating physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health
• Health Education


  1. Help clients improve their health by changing their behavior through the provision of knowledge and learning opportunities

  2. Learning occurs when there is a flow of information between the instructor and the student, which helps both parties to better comprehend why change is necessary
• Social health


  • Refers to the ability of an individual to establish positive and effective relationships with others, irrespective of their social class or position
• Health Education

  1. Teaches people how to be self-reliant and how much responsibility they have for their own health growth

  2. Teaches people how to do their own health assessment

  3. Figures out ways to keep health in good shape and lower the chance of getting sick

  4. Shows the short- and long-term effects of different behaviors and how to improve and keep health for oneself, family, and community
• Health Education

  1. Emphasizes on good health habits and practices as an integral aspect of culture, media, and technology

  2. Looks at how cultural factors affect health care and the care received from healthcare workers

  3. Examines how media, technology, and other factors affect health

  4. Looks at the knowledge needed to reach out to the community and help them understand and follow health education teachings
• Working together to promote health in people's lives, families, schools, and communities

  Can be done through health education
• Health education looks at the knowledge needed to reach out to the community and help them understand and follow self-reliant practices
• Health education is a means to communicate vital information to the public
• Patients’ education


  Is a method of helping individuals acquire knowledge and skills relevant to their well-being, which they may then apply in their daily lives to attain the highest level of health and self-sufficiency
• Education process


  Is a planned, organized, step-by-step, logical, science-based course of action comprising teaching and learning
• Health education is a form of Advocacy


  It looks at different ways of teaching people how to properly express health information and ideas
• Health education


  1. Healths the family, peers, and others to communicate their needs, wants, and feelings effectively to resolve health conflicts and problems

  2. Analyzes possible causes of conflict and formulates strategies for solutions without harm
• Other things affect health
• Education process


  Is a methodical, sequential, rational, empirically grounded, premeditated course of action comprising instruction and acquisition of knowledge
• Learning


  Is a change in behavior (knowledge, attitudes, or skills) that can be seen or observed and can happen anywhere and at any time because of environmental factors
• Importance of Health Education

  • Enhance knowledge awareness
  • Promotes health, safety, and security of the people
  • Develop and improve community resources
  • Increase productivity and strength of character
• It is important to help people become useful members of society who can easily fit in and be happy with their peers
• Disclosure of information demands that the patient be given enough knowledge about the risks and other treatments
• A lot of the basic moral principles and ideas that deal with taking care of patients also deal with how health professions students should act while they are learning
• Voluntariness means the patient can make a choice without being pushed or forced by others
• Nonmaleficence refers to the ethics of legal determinations involving negligence and malpractice
• Assaulting the patient with the truth can be a consequence of veracity
• Encourages people and the public to learn about how to stay healthy so that diseases don't happen and the state has healthy, useful people living in it
• Healthcare costs are kept low by making people more knowledgeable about how to promote health and avoid getting sick
• It's important for students to trust their teachers
• Without confidentiality protection, patients would lose faith in their providers and be hesitant to seek medical treatment when needed
• Justice talks about fairness and how things and services should be shared equally
• Healthcare providers may not be able to give appropriate care to the patient if they refuse
• The government can reach its health goals with the least amount of money by focusing on health education