NUR 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Health Education, Health Promotion, Public Health
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Public health improvement likely through behavioral change. Health is influenced by individual, community, health access, health disparities. Has primary responsibilities of health teaching and health promotion. Health education principles provide tools and strategies to assess readiness; facilitate change. Any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound theories that provide individuals, groups, and communities with the opportunity to acquire the information and skills needed to make quality health decisions. Help individuals, families, and communities achieve, through their own actions and initiative, optimal states of health. Family: unit in which health values, habits, and risk perceptions are developed. Goal: help members achieve optimal states of health; guide though problem solving and decision making. Directed toward specific area under broad goals. Used to predict and explain health behavior. Explains the role of values and beliefs. Emphasize the influence of self-efficacy on health behavior. A(cid:374) i(cid:374)dividual"s per(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) of (cid:272)o(cid:374)fide(cid:374)(cid:272)e i(cid:374) the a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to perfor(cid:373) a spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) (cid:271)ehavior.
