Principles Of Health Education

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2. HEALTH EDUCATION
Health education is a process of providing information and advice on healthy lifestyle and encourage them to develop knowledge, attitudes and skills that aims at changing behaviour of individuals and communities.
OBJECTIVES OF HEALTH EDUCATION
• Informing people
• Motivating people
• Guiding people’s action
CONTENTS OF HEALTH EDUCATION
• HUMAN BIOLOGY: it is important to start teaching this from kindergarten and the children should be taught different parts of the body and their function
NUTRITION: people needs to be taught the nutrient value in food stuff and their effects on health, so that they can choose optimum and balanced diets.
• HYGIENE: people should be taught the importance of hygiene, its methods and ways …show more content…

• To guide the client to master the knowledge related to the care of illness and healing in order to increase the abilities of self-health care self- care. In this sense, the client will become a healthy person and with high quality of life.
• To establish an environment that helps individual to change behaviour that will help individual adopt the advisable decision making and to select the behaviour that will promote health.
However cultural beliefs, philosophical beliefs, and economic are still a big barriers to the good outcomes of health education in our society today. All the scientific knowledge, financial resources and manpower in the world can force health measures on people.
3. COUNSELLING
Counselling is the act of helping the client to see things more clearly, possibly from a different point of view that could enable the client to focus on feelings, experiences or behaviour, with a goal to facilitating positive change.
OBJECTIVES OF COUNSELLING
• To get clarity into ones problem
• To help accept ones weaknesses and …show more content…

4. EVALUATION
Evaluation is a process of making judgements which now forms the basis for planning. It is a way of establishing goals by checking the measures through collection of evidence concerning how to achieve the goal.
SCOPE OF EVALUATION
• Identifies strength and weakness, needs and demands, difficulties and problems.
• Provides baseline for guidance and counselling
• An effective way of appraising or methods of instruction
• A tool and technique for development
• Interpretation of result
TYPES OF EVALUATION
1. Formative evaluation: it starts during the project development and continues throughout the project. Its aim is to assess the ongoing project activities and monitor to provide information that will improve the project. This is done at several points in the developmental process of the project and its

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