Why Is Health Education Necessary?
What is Health Education and Why Does It Matter?
Health education is a powerful tool for improving health and wellness in our communities. It improves the quality of life for people by teaching them the skills they need to maintain their own health and wellness. Health education also works to create awareness of diseases, unhealthy behaviors, and other conditions that may impact the health of our communities. Studies show that those who receive health education are less likely to develop chronic disease, improve their overall behavior, and live longer than those who do not. Health education can be effective in one-on-one or group settings.
Education and Health
The Healthy Volunteerism Program of Community Health Programs and The YMCA of Central West Virginia, in partnership with the Bureau for Public Health, The Ohio Valley University, Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District, and United Way of Central West Virginia, will provide health education opportunities for the citizens of the Huntington area through the eighth Annual Summer Healthy Homes. Healthy homes refer to a healthy living environment. Health education programs and opportunities for exercise can help keep us fit and healthy.
Why is Health Education Important?
Providing health education and promoting health and wellness is a matter of life and death. People who are healthy have the opportunity to make choices that will impact their future quality of life. Making healthy choices can impact the well-being of our communities by encouraging individuals to adopt healthy behaviors and to remain asymptomatic from disease. Healthy behaviors can reduce the number of medical costs including doctor and hospital visits, prescription drugs, ambulance runs, and hospital stays. In order for individuals to make healthy choices, education is needed to teach individuals about what to eat, the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and the importance of staying physically active.
How can we educate more people?
In the United States, there are more than 250 million people who don’t understand what normal blood pressure is. They don’t understand that it is healthy to keep their weight in the upper limit of the normal range. They don’t realize that diabetes is a serious disease and that it can be prevented or treated. Many of the people who aren’t educated about healthy eating and physical activity don’t know the risk of having a heart attack. We need to change the way we educate people about their health. We need to improve the teaching methods used to deliver health education, and we need to develop a new way to deliver health education that can reach a wider range of people.
What is health education?
Health education is all of the information that we need to live a healthy life. It is not just about a prescription and some pills. Health education helps us understand why we have certain health conditions and encourages us to make the changes that can lead to a more healthy life. Types of Health Education The common features of health education include: • Community health education • Learning from experts • Strategies to prevent disease • You are not alone What You Can Do Health education makes a difference. However, we can’t know how much it will make a difference until we do it ourselves.
Developing a curriculum
With the support of a committee of community volunteers, a curriculum was developed. The curriculum is a fun and engaging way to reinforce health information in both Health Education classes and in other events or classes. The 1st quarter focuses on the signs and symptoms of breast cancer, healthy pregnancy, common mental disorders, and the importance of bone health. It is appropriate for young adults, middle school, and high school students, as well as older adults, and is sure to be a hit with the entire family. Health Education Committee Chairperson: Nancy Mahan, Director of Community Services SCHOOL MONTH ORGANIZATION QUALIFICATIONS 1. Must serve as a District Health Education Specialist 2. Must be a member of the Jefferson County Health Board 3.
The goals of the curriculum
The purposes of a Health Education program include helping people understand the impacts of their behaviors on their health, healthy behaviors, mental and physical, social supports, and to help them learn skills that they can use to increase their quality of life. The program should provide evidence-based instruction and promote health as the main goal of the program, though teaching skills for maintaining health may be a secondary goal. Health education should also promote the objectives of the larger community health effort. These objectives are: Promote health as the main goal of the program, though teaching skills for maintaining health may be a secondary goal. Provide a supportive environment to help people become and stay healthier and strengthen their community.
Who should teach the curriculum
Health education curriculum should be developed by health educators with a full understanding of current health issues, ways to address those issues, and the language and themes that will engage individuals. Do I need health education training? No. Anyone can teach health education. Training is important, however. However, it is not necessary to teach health education. Training and experience are important prerequisites. To become a certified health education instructor, complete a 30-hour course. In order to teach a course, you must pass an in-service examination, which tests the skills and knowledge that you have developed through your training and experience. What are the key concepts of health education?
Designing an introduction to health education class
An introduction to health education class may consist of a short presentation of how health education works, identifying the four components of health education, learning about some health myths and how they can be debunked and then reviewing the objectives of the class and how the content will be presented to the students. Each time a lesson is taught, it should be refreshed. At the end of each lesson, the class should share the positives and problems that arose and review the plan to correct the problems. This will help students get a better understanding of the material and how they can use it in their everyday lives to help them stay healthy. Source: https://www.webmd.
Designing teaching materials for a health education class
There are numerous ways to teach people about health and wellness. Although some ideas may seem weird at first, when you think about it, they are quite logical. Rather than teach people how to do pushups and parkour, teach them how to better understand and respond to the symptoms of a stroke. Rather than teaching people to recognize patterns in common diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or breast cancer, teach people about their personal risk and how to identify conditions and behaviors that increase the risk of disease. Rather than teaching people about the environmental factors that can cause chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer, teach people about their personal risk and how to recognize triggers and risk factors.
Conclusion
GIVE Health United is committed to improving health in our communities by implementing new programs and services in collaboration with our partners in the community. Through GIVE Health United, Healthy North Carolina, local volunteers, and participating organizations are making meaningful contributions to the well-being of our residents by engaging them to improve their physical and mental health.
