1. CHS 382 Fundamentals of Health Education
By: Iffat Elbarazi Lecturer
KSU
L 2- Sem,21429

2. Definition of Health Education
Process that involve influencing positively behaviour, attitudes, skills, knowledge, related to individuals, community, and group health
It is a process that needs time, planning and focus on certain behaviour to promote health
Green: he is any combination of learning experiences (methods, activities) designed to facilitate voluntary adaptations of behaviour conducive to health
Other definitions mentioned self powering, empowerment, policy makers, self concept, self esteem,

3. Any combination of learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary adoptions of behaviors conducive to health.
Educate, motivate, refer, follow-up
Complex health care system
Targets: knowledge, attitudes, behaviors

4. Health Education Should work on 3 levels: Governmental: policies
Organizations: enact policies
Individuals: practice healthy behaviour

5. Health Promotion
Health Protection
Prevention
Health Education

6. Prevention Reducing injuries, illnesses, disabilities on three levels:
1- Primary
2- Secondary
3- Tertiary

7. The process of enabling people to increase control and to improve their health
Prerequisites;
Shelter
Education
Food
Income
Stable ecosystem
Resources
Social justice

8. Five elements for HP By building health public policy
Create supportive environment
Strengthen community action
Develop personal skills
Reorient health services
Green: Combination of educational and environmental supports for action, conditions of living conducive to health: (social, political, economical, organizational, policies, regulations)

9. Is there a difference between health education and health promotion?
Health education: learner directed
Health promotion: broader concept directed toward advocating health
Individual and community education
Environmental change
Policy changes
Economic changes
Shifts in societal norms

10. Iffat Elbarazi (Lecturer) KSU) L3, SEM, 2--1429
CHS 382 Health Sciences
Iffat Elbarazi (Lecturer)
KSU)
L3,
SEM,

11. KNOWLEDGE Health education skills Theories of learning/ of HE Diseases
Patients and community needs
Behavioural and psycho-social studies
Health systems
Program planning/ development

12. Learning Theory Rationale
Use of Theories to understand health in communities, better understanding of health issues and a tool for planning.
Therefore building programs and implementing them become easier
Theory is the driving force for the health promotion and disease prevention process

13. knowledge Theories of changing health behaviours;
Ecological theories: Interpersonal, community and Individual theories
Framework: Social marketing, Preceed-Proceed model

14. 1- Individual level theories:
Health belief model
Stage of change
Theory of reasoned action
2-Interpersonal Theories
Special cognitive theory
Expectations
3- Community level Theories
Community organizations
Innovation
Organizational change

15. Framework models
To plan health promotion and disease prevention activities, they share similar stages that must be followed:
Social marketing framework: uses marketing concepts such as: Price, Product, promotion, and place to influence behavior
The PRECEDE-PROCEED framework: planning process that empower individuals and communities to improve their quality of life

16. Ecological Theory
Link multiple levels of influences to people’s health-A change in one can cause a change in another.
Intrapersonal
Groups and organizations
Community we live in
The media we are exposed
The policies that shape our world
In health promotion gathering data on all levels thought to be influencing a health concept.

17. Ecological theories
Individual level theories: from psychology, look at cognitive characteristics of individuals
Interpersonal-level theories: individuals relationships with others, how people interact and learn from others such as social theory or social cognitive theory
Community level theories how community institutions such as schools, government influence health behaviour, it aims at changing environment to influence health

18. Individual theories: Health Belief model
health related behavior depend on 4 attitudes and beliefs:
1- Potential seriousness of illness
2- Feeling at risk of illness
3- Benefit they feel for taking preventive action
4-Barriers to taking action
You can identify individual’s perception for these areas and use information to develop program to change these perceptions for positive health behavior

19. Individual Theories: Stages of Changes
Pre-contemplation
Contemplation
Action
Maintenance
Relapse

20. Individual theories: Theory of Reasoned Action
Person’s intention to perform a behavior depending on 2 factors:
Attitude
Influence of social environment or norm

21. Individual Theories: Theory of Planned behavior
Adds to the reasoned action the concept of perceived behavioral control: individual’s perception to perform of his/her ability to perform a behavior

22. Interpersonal Theories: Social Learning , Social cognitive:
Behavioral change is affected by environmental influences, personal factors & attribute of behavior itself
Central concept: self efficacy and incentive to perform action
Outcomes and expectations

23. Community Level Theory
Community organization: Locality Development, social planning, social action each suggest a different approach to influencing community environments
Key Concept is empowerment of oneself and over one’s community
Innovation theory: New products and social practices
Organizational change: Srategies that increase chances for healthy policies and programs such as stage theory and organizational development

24. Approaches of Health Education And Promotion
Medical and preventive
Behavioral changes
Educational
Empowerment
Social change

25. Psychological theories of Learning
States that learning Involve three domains:
Cognitive :
Affective (attitudes & feelings)
Psychomotor: skills