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Health
Education

Teaching strategies refers to methods used to help students learn the

desired course contents and be able to develop and be able achievable
goals in the future
Teaching strategies identify the different available learning methods to
enable them to develop the right strategy to deal with the target group
identified
WHO
Defines health education as any combination of learning experiences
designed to help individuals and communities improve their health by
increasing knowledge or influencing their attitudes.
Concepts of Health and Wellness
Health
Itself cannot be measured
Has been defined in terms of the presence/absence of disease
Nightingale defined this as state of being well and using every power
the individual possesses the fullest extent
Word derived from English word for heal which is HAEL. It means whole
because it concerns the whole person and his integrity, soundness/ wellbeing.
Holistic(total health) and it includes the different dimensions of health
taking into account the separate influences and interaction of these
dimension
WHO
Defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease infirmity.
American Nurses
Dynamic state of being in which the developmental and behavioral
Association
potential of individual is realized the fullest extent possible
Wellness and well-being
Wellness health
Allows health to be placed on a continuum from ones optimal
status
level(wellness) to a maladaptive state (illness)

Highest health
Critical health
Potential

Good health
Death

Normal health

Mild illness

Illness

Wellness dynamic Ever changing, the well person has some degree of illness and the ill
process
person usually has some degree of wellness.
This concept of health continuum negates the idea that wellness and
illness are opposite ,they may simultaneously in the same person in
varying degrees
Wellness
Classic description of this is developed by Dunn in the early 1960s
Dunn
According to this author, high level of wellness means functioning to ones
maximum health potential while remaining in balance with the
environment.
Environmental
Dimension of health:
Societal
Mental
Social
Emotional
Spiritual
Physical
Sexual
Environmental
Broader dimension of health in the outer circle which are:
and social
dimension
Individual dimension of health in the inner circle are:

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Involves support system thats available from family members and friends
Express ones feelings appropriately and to develop and sustain
relationships
Recognition of the supreme being and ability to put into practice ones
moral principle
State of ones body
Acceptance of and the ability to achieve a satisfactory expression of ones
sexuality
Positive sense of purpose and underlying belief in ones own worth
Link between health and the way of society is structured
Ability to promote health measures that improves the study of living and
quality of life in community
History of Health Education as an Emerging Profession
Physical health Anatomical integrity and physiological functioning of body
Mental
Ability to learn and think clearly
Social
Ability to make an maintain acceptable interaction with other people
Disease
Existence of some pathology/abnormality of the body which is capable
of detection using, accepted investigation methods

Subjective state of a person who feels aware of not being well

Illness
State of social dysfunction
Sickness
Health education
Lawrence Green defined it as a combination of learning experiences
designed to facilitate voluntary actions conducive to health.
Fundamental tool to attainment of the health for all
Ethiopia utilizes the education as primary means of prevention of
diseases and promotion of health
major component of program services
combination
emphasizes the importance of matching the multiple determinants of
behavior with multiple learning experiences
distinguishes health education from incidental learning experience
designed
systematically planned activity

create favorable conditions for actions

Facilitate

behavioral measures are undertaken by an individual group/community

Voluntary
to achieve an intended health affect without use of force, with full
action
understanding and acceptance of purpose
combination of educational and environmental supports for action of
living conducive to health
Heath

Social health
Emotional
Spiritual
Physical
Sexual
Mental
Societal
Environmental

promotion
Roles of Health Educator:
Talking to people and listening to their problems.
Thinking of the behavior/action that would cause, cure and prevent these problems.
Finding reasons for peoples behavior.
Helping people to see the reason for their actions health problems.
Asking people to give their own ideas for solving the problems.
Helping to look as their ideas so that they could which were the most useful and the simplest
to put into practice.
Encouraging people to choose the idea best suited to their circumstances.
Historical Foundations of Nurse Educator Role
Health education has long been considered a standard care giving role of the nurse
Patient teaching is recognized as an independent nursing foundation
Nursing practice has expanded to include education in a broad concepts of health and illness
Historical Foundations
Organizations and agencies promulgating standards and mandates:
NLNE
1ST observed health teaching as an important function within the scope
of nursing practice
Responsible for identifying course content for curriculum in principles of
ANA
teaching and learning
Responsible for establishing standards and qualifications for practice,
ICN
including patient teaching
State
Endorses health education as an essential component of nursing care
NursePractice
delivery

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JCAHO
AHA
New Health
Profession
Commision

Universally includes teaching within the scope of nursing practice

Accreditation mandates require evidences of patient education to
improve outcomes
Patients bill of rights ensures that clients receive complete and current
info
Puts forth a set of health profession competencies
Over 112 recommendations pertain to importance of patient staff
education