Question

What is Health Education? what is health promotion? in your own words not from the book.

Answer 1

Ans) Health Education:

- Any combination of learning experiences designed to assist new behavioral methods.

- It includes:

1. organizational efforts
2. policy directives
3. environmental activities
4. mass media campaigns

- Focus of health education: Provides information that assists clients to understand options in making voluntary choices on issues that affect health.

Health Promotion:

- The science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move towards a state of optimal health.

- Scope of Health Promotion:

1. Focus - refers to type of health issue
2. Strategies - how are the goals to be achieved
3. Outcome - what are the end results

- The Triad of health promotion:

1. Prevention
2. Health education
3. Health promotion

- Purpose:

It combines legal and fiscal controls, other regulations and policies aimed at the enhancement of good health & the prevention of ill health.

So to explain:

- Health education is most effective when used with health promotion strategies but health education is needed for proper health promotion.

- Health promotion and education can directly or indirectly impact the following four factors to promote health: lifestyle and behavior, health care services, healthy environment, and human biology-genetics.