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Reflective Essay On Health Education

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Health education is one of the component consisted in the health promotion. There are two citation from Glanz et al (1999) that give the definition of health education : ‘Bringing about behavioural changes in individuals, groups and larger populations from behaviours that are presumed to be detrimental to health, to behaviours that are conducive to present and future health’ (Simond, 1976). ‘Any combination of learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary adaptatations of behavior conducive to health’ (Green, 1980). There are many ways in giving health education to the communities. It can be individual approach, small-group approach, mass approach or community organization approach. We have to choose which approach is suitable based on the number of our audiences or recipient. Educational media is an important tool in giving health educations. The example of educational media tools is aural tools, visual tools and audio-visual tools. Basically in all of these tools, there is electronic, non-electronic, personal, printing and others. …show more content…

My patient’s name is Siti Hajar and she’s been admitted to obstetric ward 6B in Hospital Sungai Buloh. She is just giving birth to her second child which is a healthy baby girl. She had to undergone Lower Segment Cesarean Section (LSCS) on 14 February 2016. The problem she had is that her breast milk is not being ejected by her body when she want to breast feed her baby. So, I am trying to help her by giving health education regarding on what to do to facilitate the breast milk ejection reflex. Every health education had its own objective to be achieved. My objective during giving health education is that the patient has knowledge on how to solve her problem. Besides, I also hope that she can try and practice on what she had been

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