Education - Answers > process of teaching
> produce observable behavior changes
> planned learning activities
Health - Answers > state of complete physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual health and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Health Education - Answers > process
> implementing programs to enable people to play active roles to achieve, protect, and sustain health
First Phase - Answers > emergence of nursing professions
> spread of "white plague" - tuberculosis and communicable diseases
> welfare of mothers and children
Second Phase - Answers > public health nurses
> educational programs on sanitation, immunization and preventive treatment of infectious diseases
Third phase - Answers > educating public health to patients/individuals
> educational prescription for chronic illness
- Physical
- Emotional
- Mental
- Social
- Spiritual - Answers Aspects of Good Health
> Planned opportunity for learning
> Specific settings (allows privacy)
> Appt. Learning Levels
> Prev. learnings determined
> Interrelate health to quality of life
> Qualified educator & learner interactions - Answers Characteristics of Health Education Process
> Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
> Continue healthy behaviors
> Influence of culture, media, technology
> Communication of vital info
> Advocacy - Answers Purposes of Health Education
Wellness-Illness Continuum - Answers > model that represents the dynamic shift of wellness to illness
of a person through a spectrum. Illness in its worse form is severe and wellness in its best form or high
level is the optimum level of functioning
> health education: behavioral changes
> promotes health by teaching to prevent illness and lead to behavioral changes
> Human Body Health & Hygiene
> Health Care Resources
> Health policies for all levels of society - Answers Types of Health Education
> Increases knowledge & awareness
> Fosters health, safety, and security
> Enhance comm. H. resources
> Disease prevention
> Reduces healthcare costs
> Instill self-reliant behaviors - Answers Importance of Health Education
Educational process - Answers > systematic, logical, sequential
> APIE
Nursing process - Answers > clinical decisions
> ADPIE
Patient education - Answers > assisting people in learning health-related behaviors
Staff education - Answers > behavior of nurses by producing changes in KSA
> enhance competencies for delivery of care
> Substantive/Curricular
> Procedural/Methodological
> Social & Environmental