Health Education, Health Educator, Health Worker, Community, Society
Authors:
Sarwar, Muhammad Farhan
Sarwar, Muhammad Haroon
Sarwar, Muhammad
Journal:
IJIRES
Volume:
2
Number:
1
Pages:
1-4
Month:
Jan.-Feb.
ISSN:
2349-5219
BibTex:
Note:
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Abstract:
This article provides recommendations and
guidelines for maintaining a high quality health education
program. The health is delineated as the state of being free
from disease, injury, sickness, bodily conditions and
something indicating good bodily circumstances. The health
education is any combination of learning experiences
designed to help individuals and communities to improve
their health by increasing their knowledge or influencing
their attitudes. Everybody should take care about health
education because this education builds skill, knowledge and
positive attitudes of learners regarding health. Health
education teaches about mental, physical, emotional and
social health aspects. It motivates learners to prevent disease,
reduce risky behaviors, and maintain and improve their
health. Health education can provide an opportunity for the
clients to go through the stages of identification of problems,
planning, implementation and evaluation. This is of special
importance in the health education of the community where
the identification of problems and planning, and
implementing and evaluating are to be done with full
involvement of the society to make it the community’s own
program. The health education is based on scientific findings
and current knowledge; therefore a health educator should
have recent scientific knowledge to provide health education.
The results of current guidelines can help to schools for
selecting or developing appropriate and effective health
education curricula and improve the delivery of health
education.