400732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Health Education, Health Literacy, Environmental Health
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Health education is a profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health, as well as sexual and reproductive health education. Health education can be de ned as the principle by which individuals and groups of people, learn to behave in a manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance, or restoration of health. However, as there are multiple de nitions of health, there are also multiple de nitions of health education. The world health organisation de ned health education as "compris[ing] [of] 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. " Responsibility i: assessing individual and community needs for health education. Provides the foundation for program planning: determines what health problems might exist in any given groups.
