Question

Describe how a health educator might function in the following settings; daily tasks and objectives on International Agencies Non-traditional Settings

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International Agencies

Non-traditional Settings

include the Advantage and disadvantage of each functions

Answer 1

Health educator function:
International agency:
(WHO) the world health organization is the international health organization. It is an intergovernmental agency related to the united states this works with the united nations. It has a goal to provide good health to all people. Through health education in the past 10 years, it had a 50% increase in human resources development loans for the next three years. That is for nutrition, health, and population activity.
Health educators as a WHO secretariat they implement strategies by increasing access to high-quality medical products making awareness about the noncommunicable disease, adhering public health with social, economic and environmental factors, promoting well being, help following international health regulations and to assist public to get universal health coverage.
Advantages include patient satisfaction, improving home care and outpatient service, cost reduction.
Disadvantages are less hospital admission, increase employees workload and cause dissatisfaction and less access to intervention.
Non-traditional settings:
Health educator function in non-traditional settings like telephone intervention for getting practice and changing health behavior and making plan and intervention it help individual and family and community for healthy lives and healthy choices. they also provide education on disease prevention and management. they always focus on preventive health care.
Advantages of this education through non- traditional settings improve people behavior, quality of life, holistic approach and improve mental, physical, social well being of patients.
The disadvantage there will be a lack of financial resources.