Health Education Case Study

1. Poor educational facilities create a major problem in imparting health education for women in villages. Many villages are still without an upper primary school. Especially girls dropping out after primary level of school has been seen. Then parents also hesitate to send the girls to other villages for schooling, for fear of their security.

2. The majority of school dropouts belong to the poorest people of rural areas. They are usually from SC/ST communities, backward rural areas and also urban slums. The factors responsible for dropouts range from economic to cultural reasons. Children are pulled out of school mostly due to economic reasons, child have to earn livelihood for their family.

3. Gender discrimination against girl child is

Women’s Health Education Program should be organised in rural areas frequently. Interactive activities should be incorporated during teaching to keep the women engaged. Intensive question discussion and answer sessions should be included. Topics such as Female anatomy, menstrual cycle, pregnancy, breastfeeding, family planning, STIs (including HIV), Nutrition, Women’s rights against violence should be discussed.

6. Educating about family planning. The benefits of family planning as well as the methods of family planning including natural, barrier, hormonal and permanent methods should be discussed. Many of the women have false beliefs about the family planning methods. Therefore, it is important that to remove such misconception.

7. While imparting health education the teacher can also arrange painting and poster competition which is a useful way to generate interest among students and motivate them to collect information on health education.

8. Essay competition as a useful method of reflecting their views regarding various diseases such as HIV and AIDS should be organised. Teacher also can organize quiz competition by collecting questions from various sources to create awareness among the

Women’s engagement is very necessary for health care programmes and for its formulation. In Assam 90 per cent of the population is rural and extremely poor. Guwahati is the only big city in the whole state. It is more than twice that of urban poverty. In health and education Assam’s achievement are quite below as per with all India level. Assam ranks 12th among in the 16 States in terms of Human and Gender development. Though recently, it has achieved many frontiers in terms of health schemes and is ranked 1st among the north-eastern states. Imparting education in such places becomes difficult. But awareness about women’s health is necessary irrespective of rural or urban area. In fact, in rural areas, it has to be more taken care of. The importance of a woman’s health is understood by the roles and responsibilities played by her in the family and community. As can be seen from the discussions, informal education is more helpful in imparting health education than only formal education. As women constitute half of the human resource on the earth, and the health of the other half also depends to a large extent on their attitude and education. Hence it is very important that women are educated and aware about their health