...Health Education Tammy Arfmann HCA 331 Introduction to Health Care Education Prof. Mona Chin February 18, 2013 The health education field has expanded in many ways over the past years and will continue to expand over the upcoming years due to the increasing resources that are available for the individuals. The health education field is a vast profession that has greatly impacted many individuals with the information that the individuals provide. This paper will discuss the health education field and profession in greater detail as far as what has happened over the years and the way the profession has changed. It will also analyze a website that covers an HIV prevention program and will also provide a description of a website that has been created to cover heart disease. There are many different events that have helped to shape health education and the health education profession. Three of the events that have impacted the health education field the most are the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Social Security Act. According to Cottrell, Girvan, & McKenzie (2012), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act “bill encourages and promotes worksite wellness programs, encourages evidence-based community prevention and wellness programs, and provides strong support for school based health centers” (p.69). The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provide the...
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...Kosisochi Ginigeme Philosophy of Health Education Health education is a very important and vital aspect of healthcare. The knowledge of certain things causing different types of sicknesses and putting you at risk for diseases allows people to be aware of what to avoid and stay away from, which could greatly benefit them in the long run. Some things people should know pertaining to their health is that obesity, smoking, and carcinogens, just to name a few, could put you in danger of developing health problems in the future. So with this in mind, people should be mindful of their health by watching what they eat, exercising, avoid smoking, and to be aware of the toxins and chemicals in your environment and take precaution. Other things people could do in relation to their health is to take preventative actions, such as being screened for certain diseases and getting immunizations. Health promotion and prevention are two essential aspects that people need to be aware of when teaching clients about their health. Teaching is the act of knowing certain information and transferring this knowledge to other people by breaking down the content at hand and sharing it in a way that's easy for the audience to grasp and digest. When teaching, the teacher should make sure that they have the audience's full attention. Along with this, the teacher should make sure that factors such as beliefs and knowledge, environment, and organization, don't inhibit the learning process; make sure there...
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...Jake Johnson 10/15/15 Health Economics Writing Assignment 1 The Impact of Education on Health Throughout the years there has been well-documented research about the strong, positive correlation between education and health. However there is little evidence that suggests the extent to how education has such a casual impact on health. In this paper I will discuss the relationship between education and mortality rates across the world. Regardless of the measure of your socioeconomic status, such as income and race, or the measure of health, morbidity rates and self-reported health status, there is a strong and significant correlation between education and health (Clark & Royer, 2013). Given the effects of education measured at large scale, investments in education may prove to be a cost-effective means of achieving better health (Clark & Royer, 2013). “If the effects of education are large enough, then education policies might be powerful tools for improving health, especially in comparison to additional health care spending, the returns to which are uncertain” (Clark & Royer 2010). There are three mechanisms through which education may affect health and mortality. First, a higher level of educational attainment helps individuals acquire better and more stable employment, increasing their earnings power. Second, a higher level of education helps individuals build psychosocial resources, such as heightened sense of personal...
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...Education is central to an empowerment approach to health promotion Education has a vital role to play in the empowerment process and is thus central to health promotion. It was not always seen this way, however, and in the early 1980s, health education had a rough time of it. Some writers criticised health education for being, as they saw it, a series of individually focused campaigns designed to change lifestyles, and which therefore disempowered people by 'blaming the victim' for their own ill-health (Rodmell and Watt, 1986). As a result there was for some time an emphasis on health promotion, which was seen as advocating structural changes to the social, political and public health fabric of society. This polarisation lead to the marginalisation of health education, and indeed of all educational activity, in favour of socially focused approaches, for some years. In the mid 1980s there was a fight back on behalf of health education (Tones, 1987). It was particularly significant that the Ottawa Charter (WHO, 1986) placed education firmly at the heart of health promotion when it suggested five areas for action within health promotion, one of which was predominantly individual and educational – the enhancement of the individual with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make competent decisions about their health’. Health education and health promotion tend now to be seen as overlapping spheres (Green and Kreuter, 1991) and the differences between them as about...
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...different approaches to health education, explaining two models of behaviour change that have been used in recent health education campaigns, and assessing how the social context may influence the ability of health education campaigns to change behaviour in relation to health. Health promotion involves doing things to prevent disease and to improve individual and community’s health. Health promotion offers solutions to many of the health problems facing society such as obesity, lack of exercise and smoking though developing skills and knowledge, community action, supportive environments, healthy public policy and health services. Health promotion helps individuals or communities to increase control over and improve their health and wellbeing. The features of health promotion are that it is based on a holistic view of health; it uses participatory approaches it focuses on the determinants and addressing of health not just health problems and conditions. These include the social, behavioural, environmental and economic conditions that are the root cause of poor health, wellbeing and illness such as education, income, employment, working conditions, social status. Health promotion builds on existing strengths and assets and it uses multiple, complementary approaches to promote health for the individual, community and population as a whole. There are three main approaches to health education. The approaches have been used to as a way to improve the health of individual. The three...
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...What is health education? Health education is making people aware of what health problems exist and how to prevent, deal and live with them. Health education is really important in order to keep us up to date with our health. The World Health Organisation says that health is defined as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. The three types of health education that I am going to talk about are mass media, 2 way communication and social marketing. Chegg textbook says that "Mass media consists of the various means by which information reaches large numbers of people". This could be through things like social networking sites, TV advertisements, national campaigns and many more. An example of health campaigns through mass media and adverts is Change 4 Life, mass media is a major part of their campaigning as they wouldn't be as bug of an organisation as they are now without it. As the media and content reaches a larger audience, it is more likely to affect or change their opinion or attitude towards the subject matter. Although mass media reaches large amounts of people, it cannot offer personal help or support. Mass media is good for organising events of spreading news quickly, mass media isn't so good at offering two way information- which is basically an actual conversation, with both sprite involved. Mass media also isn't very good at providing solutions to certain problems because where it can't use...
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...Approaches to health education Health promotion is the process and method of raising awareness on health related issues by making the public more aware on a particular subject or showing negative consequences which help change or alter a person’s behaviour or thinking. This is done so that these specific campaign or advertisements almost have a control over anindividual’s future and present choices based around their health and wellbeing. Though these promotions are specifically designed to target and be personalised to each individual but aims to cover a wide target audience at the same time. This can be conveyed through advertisements such as: television advertisements, radio adverts, leaflets, posters, website advertisements, social media and many more, though these are the most significant uses of advertisement used to target a large scale of the public. There have been several reputable landmarks that have been successful in raising awareness of health promotion to the world, ensuring that they have provided a substantial amount of knowledge and attentiveness so that each target audience acknowledges if not corresponds to the information provided by these landmarks. One of these landmarks being the Ottawa charter which enables people to take control and responsibility over their own health to empower an improvement on each individuals life’s to make a positive different to their wellbeing. Through reaching this level of complete wellbeing, will develop people to achieve...
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...PERSPECTIVES IN COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION Assessing a Targeted Family applying the MAP-IT steps Glen Williams Access the areas of greatest need in your community; in this case, assisting your target family to access health care, as well as the resources and other strengths that you can tap into in order to address those areas. Incorporate the goals of Health People 2010 when feasible. Overarching Goals * Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. * Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups. * Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all. * Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages. INTRODUCTION The MAP-IT approach is a step-by-step, structured plan devised to tailor one's community needs and improve the health of a community. To increase the quality and years of healthy living for all Americans and to eliminate disparities in health status, individuals and communities must works together to make certain the benefits of health are available to all. There are five steps in the MAP-IT process. The second step in building a healthier community is to assess the greatest needs of the community with the goal determining what you want to improve. . Assessing a Targeted Family applying the MAP-IT steps The second step in building a healthier community...
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...2015 The modification of health behaviors is facilitated by health education specialists. The World Health Organization (1998, P.4) defined health education as “comprising consciously constructed opportunities for learning involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, including improving knowledge, and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health.”. Most simply, health education helps to inform the public about behaviors that are healthy and unhealthy. Many individuals that are concerned about their health and the health of their families usually adjust their behavior in accordance with any new information (Schneider, 2011). For example, the surgeon general’s report of 1964 which stated that smoking caused cancer and other life threatening diseases, had significant impact on the prevalence of smoking in the United States. The health education specialists role in the United States today has evolved over time based on the need to enhance health and provide educational intervention. The earliest signs of the roles and responsibilities of the health education specialist started in the mid 1800s with education in school hygiene, which was closely associated with physical activity. But by the early 1900s the need for health education began to spread to the public, but it was the social workers, journalists, visiting nurses and caregivers that were doing the educating not the health educators as we know them today...
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...Health Education Plan NUR/405 October 10, 2011 Health Education Plan Educating the public is a role every nurse must participate in to promote, maintain, and restore health among a community. To accomplish such requires community members receive and have a practical understanding of health-related information (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008). One method to accomplish such is to develop a health educational plan. The purpose of this paper is to create a health education plan based upon information collected from a windshield survey and Friedman family assessment conducted by a nurse in the community of Palmdale, California. Areas that will be discussed include, a description of the educational need based upon assessment findings, educational goals and objectives, educational methods that will be used to implement the health educational plan, and the methods applied to evaluate the educator and process used in the development and implementation of the health education plan. Identification of a Health Educational Need In conducting a windshield survey and Friedman family assessment, the nurse identified multiple educational needs. The priority educational need in common and identified among both the family and the community of Palmdale, California is the need for education on the maintenance of chronic illnesses. Determining what chronic illness to focus on in terms of development of the health educational plan however, presented more of a challenge. When observing...
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...P1 In this assignment I will be explaining three different approaches to health education. I will also be giving examples of each approach being used and lastly I will also be explaining the role of the health educators in these approaches. The three approaches I will be talking about are as follows; social marketing approach, two way communication and community development approach. Health education is usually used to give information and advice of the knowledge and skills that the professionals have gained in their sector in order to change the behaviour that affects health an example of this could be using social marketing by putting posters up in busses about eating healthy. Health educators come from a wide range of professions including teachers in schools, social workers who work with adults and young children, practice nurses in wards and hospitals and even care homes, health visitors that come out to individuals and leisure centre staff who work in gyms. Health education uses different approaches to promote health education and some of the approaches that are used and are being used I will be talking about within this assignment. Prescriptions were introduced 1952 smoking and cancer link introduced 1954 2000 NHS walk in centres introduced 2007 smoking ban introduced This time line links in with my campaign and shows how health improved over the years within drugs and other substances for an example smoking ban in public bases resulted in...
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...Health System of Pakistan Pakistan's health indicators, health funding, and health and sanitation infrastructure are generally poor, particularly in rural areas. About 19 percent of the population is malnourished—a higher rate than the 17 percent average for developing countries—and 30 percent of children under age five are malnourished. Leading causes of sickness and death include gastroenteritis, respiratory infections, congenital abnormalities, tuberculosis, malaria, and typhoid fever. The United Nations estimates that in 2003 Pakistan's human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence rate was 0.1 percent among those 15–49, with an estimated 4,900 deaths from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Hepatitis B and C are also rampant with approximately 3 million cases of each in the country at the moment. According to official data, there are 127,859 doctors and 12,804 health facilities in the country to cater for over 170 million people. In 2007 there were 85 physicians for every 100,000 persons in Pakistan. Or in other words, one doctor for 1,225 people. In contrast to most countries, we a have a dearth of nurses and there are only 62,651 nurses all over the nation who are supplemented with a strong force of 96,000 Lady Health Workers (primary health care providers). According to the latest Ministry of Health Pakistan statistics, there were 13,937 health institutions in the country including 945 hospitals (with a total of 103,285 hospital beds), 4,755 dispensaries, 5,349...
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...HEA 207 10/05/2014 Presenting on (Health, education, poverty and Economy) Article: (Ebola: Economic Impact Already Serious; Could Be “Catastrophic” Without Swift Response) According to the World Bank if the Ebola virus continues to escalate in these affected countries such as Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone; its economic impact could grow eight fold dealing a potentially catastrophic blow to the already fragile states. The Analysis concluded that the economic cost can be limited if the national and international respond quickly in containing the Ebola epidemic. The analysis estimates the short-term impact on output to be 2.1 percentage points of GDP in Guinea (reducing growth from 4.5 percent to 2.4 percent); 3.4 percentage points in Liberia (reducing growth from 5.9 percent to 2.5 percent); and 3.3 percentage points in Sierra Leone (reducing growth from 11.3 percent to 8 percent). This forgone output corresponds to $359 million in 2014 prices. However, if Ebola is not contained, these estimates rise to $809 million in the three countries alone. In Liberia, the hardest hit country, the High Ebola scenario sees output hit 11.7 percentage points in 2015 (reducing growth from 6.8 percent to -4.9 percent). The food prices are now rising due to response of shortages, panic buying, and speculation; which cause a dramatic impact on the economy. To help stop the spread of Ebola The World Bank Group has put together $230 million financing package for the three countries hardest...
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...Health Promotion through Patient Education Marianne Green Grand Canyon University February 25, 2012 Health Promotion through Patient Education “The current care systems cannot do the job. Trying harder will not work. Changing systems of care will” (The National Academies Press, 2010, p. 41). Health care transformation has become a major focus in the United States. Implementing these changes requires a complete overhaul of the current system through changes in approaches, guidelines and direction in patient care. With the increasing amount of elderly entering the health care system, insurance premiums on the rise and health costs increasing contribute to this disparity. Individuals with unhealthy lifestyles such as drug use, alcoholism, and poor eating habits also drive health care costs higher. The meaning of “health promotion” has been defined as helping people to change their lifestyles and enable them to move toward a state of optimal health. In a paper written by the U.S. Public Health Service in 1980, health promotion was set forth as a process that would advocate health and will likely enhance personal (individual, family and community), private (professional and business) and public government(local, state, and federal). The goal is that through support of positive health practices, a societal norm will evolve (Edelman & Mandle, 2009). As each individual goes through life, health promotion serves as a service that helps humans to be able to function...
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...Becoming a teacher was something I always knew I wanted. Why? Well because I came from a family that were all teachers, my mom, aunt, and uncle. I was always around the whole education thing from a very young age. I wanted a job that would be interactive, challenging, exciting, and important. Also, one that would somehow contribute to the world in an important way. This is why I choose to follow in the footsteps of my family with a slight twist. With my Health and Physical Education degree underway, I thought teaching in the primary levels would fulfill these hopes and goals assuming I dedicate myself to becoming an effective teacher who is aware of learning, motivation, and developmental theories to make a positive influence on the lives of my students. As a future educator in the field of Health and Physical Education my belief is that each and every student is different and is unique in their own way. One theory that I believe in is Erikson's theory of social development. My philosophy of education...
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