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CPH 350

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Define Health Education
Direct definition: any combination of planned learning experiences using evidence-based practices and/or sound theories that provide the opportunity to acquire knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to adopt and maintain health behaviors.
A planned process that combines various education experiences to facilitate voluntary adaptations or establishments of behaviors that are conductive to health.
Focuses on a goal of helping people choose patterns of behaviors which move them toward optimal health and help them to avoid imbalances, diseases, and accidents
Health Promotion
Any planned combination of educational, political, environmental, regulatory, or organizational mechanisms that support actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups, and communities
Health Promotion Triad
1. Health Education: Professionals provide knowledge, skill development, and support that helps clients understand their options and choose health behaviors.
Health education and health education specialists are central to health promotion.
2. Health Protection: legal or fiscal controls, regulations and policies, and voluntary codes aimed and the enhancement of health. Provides for legislative, political, and social constructs that reduce risk behaviors or environmental hazards
3. Disease Prevention: Process of reducing skills and alleviating disease to promote, reserve, and restore health and minimize distress
Primary Prevention
Efforts to prevent the onset of a specific disease by risk reduction (Seat belts, vaccines, bike helmets)
Secondary Prevention
Efforts to reduce the impact of a disease or injury that has already occurred (Screening, examinations)
Tertiary Prevention
Efforts to decrease the impact of an ongoing or chronic illness that has lasting effects (Rehab groups, insulin management)
What are the major factors influencing health?
Behavior, biological, medical, environmental...
Implications of Behavior Change
identify targets for change and the methods for accomplishing changes.
Implications of Habit Formation
The psychology behind human decision-making, What does it take to make people want to form good habits while breaking bad ones? How can they keep up those habits?
Implications of Lifestyle Development
The basis of health education, give people the knowledge and tools they need to adopt health behaviors.
What is the primary concern of health of health educations/promoters?
Changing behaviors or establishing behavior to promote health
How do individuals change behavior?
Learning, Maturating, or Both
What is theory and why is it especially useful in health education/promotion?
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What are the components of a theory?
1. Concepts: constructs and variables that are grouped by similarities, major components of theory
2. Constructs: building blocks of a theory and the primary elements to establish change.
3. Variables: the measurable changes that occur as a result of health education
4. Constants: concepts of a theory or target population that do not change
What is PRECEDE-PROCEED
Phase 1: Identify desired result
Phase 2: Identify priorities in health or community issues and the factors (behavioral, lifestyle, environmental) that have to be changed to achieve change
Phase 3: Identify predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors that can affect the behaviors, attitudes, and environmental factors in phase 2.
Phase 4: Identify administrative and policy factors that influence implementation
Phase 5: Implementation
Phase 6: Process evaluation
Phase 7: Impact evaluation
Phase 8: Outcome evaluation
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