Health Education

• Health


  Derived from the English word 'heal' which means whole, because health is concerned with the whole person
• Health


  • Holistic (total health), includes different dimensions of health
• Education


  Acquisition of knowledge and experience from teacher to learner
• Discipline


  Branch of knowledge or instruction
• Profession


  Work that needs special training or a particular skill
• Health Education


  Designing, implementing and evaluating educational programs that enable people to play active role in achieving, protecting and sustaining health
• Characteristics of a Profession

  • Health promotion and maintenance are essential social service
  • Requires extensive period of preparation
  • Have theoretical base underlying practice
  • Have a system of internal control that tend to regulate the behavior of its members
  • Have a culture peculiar to the profession
  • The importance of the work of history
  • Educator has to be recognized by many communities
• Health Education Planning Decisions

  • What is the desired change?
  • How should it be done?
  • Where should health education take place?
  • Whom should carry it?
• Principles of Education


  • Good health practices
  • Use of preventive measures
  • Correct usage of medications (TB)
  • Early recognition of symptoms and promoting early re referral
  • Community support poor primary health care
• What to Change


  • Identify key problems
  • Advises that should be given
• Proposal for Change Should

  • Be simple to put into provide
  • Fit with on existing lifestyle of the people
  • Not require big amount of money and material
  • Meet a felt need of the community
• Dimensions of Health


  • Physical Health - fitness and not being ill
  • Mental Health - self-esteem, feeling good
  • Emotional Health - express feeling appropriately
  • Social Health - support system from family and friend
  • Spiritual Health - recognition of supreme being
  • Sexual Health - refers to acceptance
• Health


  (WHO definition) a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity
• Factors Affecting Health


  • Political-power and authority
  • Behavioral - habits, lifestyle, healthcare
  • Heredity - genetically influenced disease
  • Health care delivery system- effective provision of essential health services
  • Environmental Influence- pollution, communicable diseases
  • Socio-economic Influence - families in lower income group
• Scope of Nursing


  • Promotive
  • Preventive
  • Curative
  • Rehabilitative
• Basic Positive Concepts of Health

  • Reflecting concern for the individual
  • Placing health in the context of environment
  • Equating health with productive, creative living
• How Health Education Can Be Conducted

  • Demonstration - procedure is shown
  • Word of mouth - puppet shows dramatization
  • Use of Audiovisual Aids - leaflets, charts, posters
  • Film showing - modular instructions is also effective
• Health Education


  (Joint Committee for Health Education 2005) a process with intellectual, psychological and social dimensions relating to activities that increases the abilities of people to make informed decisions affecting their personal, family and community well being
• Health Promotion


  Focuses on socioeconomic and environmental determinants
• Health Education


  Involves giving information and teaching individuals and communities on how to achieve better health
• Health Education Composition (PEMMS)

  • Physical Health - learning experiences that help promote the ability of the body to function accordingly
  • Emotional Health - the ability of an individual to cope with stress and strain as one faces the realities and challenges of life
  • Mental Health - the ability of individual to make correct judgments or sound decisions to cope with situations or conditions affecting their daily activities
  • Social Health - the ability of an individual to relate well with others regardless of status or position
  • Spiritual Health - recognizes the supernatural aspects of divine healing and the individual's communion with their creator
• Purposes of Health Education

  • Be aware of the values of health
  • Develop the skills in the promotion and maintenance of health
  • Acquire and apply concepts and information received
  • Develop and discuss opinions regarding health
  • Formulate accurate and effective decision making
• Types of Health Education

  • Biological Information - about human biology and hygiene
  • Health Resources - health services which direct the individual regarding the sensible use of health care resources
  • Society and Environment - an environment in which health choices are made, concerned with national, regional and local education policies
• 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
  • Disease prevention
  • Minimize cost
  • Self-reliant behavior
• The Change Process


  1. Perceive the need for change

  2. Initiate group interaction

  3. Implement the change one step at a time

  4. Evaluate the overall results of the change process and make further adjustments
• Factors Affecting Change


  • Culture
  • Demographics
  • Socioeconomic conditions and environmental circumstances
  • State of wellness and development
• Change and its Effects on the Filipino Health Value System

  • Home remedies
  • Traditional healing techniques
  • Supernatural healing or the use of faith healers
  • Regulated drugs or medicine
  • Over the counter drugs
• Dimensions of Health Education Process

  • Substantive or Curricular Dimension - refers to the subject matter specific to nursing education and is best embodied by the phrase "what is taught and what is learned"
  • Procedural or Methodological Dimension - consists of strategies or methods of teaching which motivate students to learn
  • Environmental or Social Dimension - refers to physical and social factors in the teaching learning situation, and extrinsic factors that capture the interest of the learners
  • Human Relation Dimension - takes into account the relationship of the nurse educator with individuals involved in nursing care practice, which influence the effectiveness of the teaching and learning process
• Nurses' Role as Health Educator


  • Provide education
  • Promote healthy practices
  • Share their expertise
  • Help patients heal
• Benefits of Health Education

  • To the Client: Taught how to identify their own healthy benefits and practices, perform and adopt health beliefs and practices, better access to information regarding general prevention
  • To the Nurse: Eases the burden of care giving, well informed clients are more cooperative, derive fulfillment from giving knowledge to clients
  • To the Society: Healthier population contributes to greater productivity, promotes better informed population, corrects myths and beliefs, changes society's view about patients with disease promoting empathy rather than discrimination
• Article VI Section 28 of the Philippine Nursing Act of 2002 (RA9173) states that a nurse is to provide health education to individuals, families and communities
• Education Process


  A systemic, sequential, logical and scientifically based, planned course of action consisting of teaching and learning, a cycle that involves a teacher and learner, occurring before the lesson begins and continuing after the last lesson ends
• APIE (Education Process)


  • Assessment - process which provides the nurse educator with information regarding the learners' knowledge and skills needed to efficiently and effectively transfer knowledge and skills to the learner
  • Planning - a carefully organized written presentation of what the learner needs to learn and how the nurse educator is going to initiate the teaching process
  • Implementation and Application of the Teaching Plan - the point where the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching learning process meet as the teacher applies the plan
  • Evaluation - the measurement of the teaching-learning performance of both the teacher and the learner, constructive and objective with the purpose of creating effective change
• Characteristics of Education Process (DUGIS)

  • Dynamic - provides active interaction and integration among activities, current activity influences future activities
  • Universally Applicable - allows nurses to practice nursing with well or sick people, young or old, regardless of race, creed or religion and in any practice setting
  • Goal Directed - a means for nurses and clients to work together to identify specific goals related to wellness promotion, disease and illness prevention, health restoration and coping with altered functioning
  • Interpersonal - ensures that the nurse are client centered rather than task centered, encourages nurses to work and help clients use their strength to meet their own need
  • Systematic - ordered sequence of precise and accurate activities, preceding activities influence activities following them
• Principles of Health Education

  • Principle of definite aim
  • Principle of credibility
  • Principle of interest
  • Principle of participation
  • Principle of motivation
  • Principle of comprehension
  • Principle of Reinforcement
  • Principle of learning by doing
• Sample Nurse Educator Teaching Plan

  • Time Allotted
  • Objectives
  • Content
  • Teaching-Learning Activities
  • Evaluation
• Nursing practice


  • With well or sick people, young or old, regardless of race, creed or religion and in any practice setting
• Goal directed


  A means for nurses and clients to work together in order to identify specific goals related to wellness promotion, disease and illness prevention, health restoration and coping with altered functioning
• Interpersonal


  Ensures that the nurse are client centered rather than task centered. It encourages nurses to work and help clients use their strength to meet their own need
• Systematic


  Ordered sequence of precise and accurate activities. Preceding activities influence activities following them