Dental Health

Education
Definition
Health education is defined as any educational activity
which aims to achieve health related goal
Definition
Health education is an active learning process which aims
at favorably changing attitudes and influencing behavior
with regards to health
Definition

It is a vital practice of Prevention

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Three main objectives of
Health Education
1. Informing people
2. Motivating people
3. Guiding into action
Three domains of learning
1. Cognitive
Understanding factual knowledge

2. Affective
Feelings, emotions, beliefs associated with health

3. Behavioral
Skills development
Contents of Health
Education
oHuman Biology
oNutrition
oHygiene
a) Personal Hygiene
b) Environmental Hygiene
c) Community Hygiene
Contents of Health
Education
oFamily Health Care
oControl of Communicable and Non-communicable
Diseases
oMental Health
oPrevention of Accidents
oUse of Health Services

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12 Principles of Health
Education
1. Credibility
2. Interest
3. Participation
4. Comprehension
5. Known to Unknown
6. Reinforcement
7. Learning by doing
8. Motivation
9. Good human relations
10. Setting an example
11. Soil Seed Sower
12. Social leaders

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12 Principles of Health
Education
Credibility - the degree to which the message is
perceived as trustworthy by the receiver

Interest related to the interest of the community;

identify the felt needs

Participation - health educator should encourage

people to participate in the program
12 Principles of Health
Education
Comprehension - level of understanding of the
people

Known to Unknown find out the existing level of

knowledge of the people

Reinforcement - the principle that refers to the

repetition needed in health education

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12 Principles of Health
Education
Learning By Doing - experimentation

Motivation Intrinsic: inborn desire / Extrinsic:

incentives

Good Human Relations - the health educator

should have good personal qualities and should
be able to maintain friendly relations with the
people
12 Principles of Health
Education
Setting an example - should set an example to others
to follow

Soil, Seed, Sower - Soil is the community; Seed is

information; Sower is the person giving the information

Social Leaders important medium for health

education
Models of Health Education
1. Cognitive Model
2. Behavioral Learning Model
3. Self-empowerment Model
4. Radical Model

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Models of Health Education
Cognitive Model

One central theory believed that behavior is can

learned by individuals, not merely transmitted by
one person to another

Knowledge Attitude Behavior

Models of Health Education
Behavioral Learning Model

Relies on changing learning behavior through

prescribed activities that present the appropriate
skills, behavior and knowledge with the hope that
the desired attitude will follow

Participation
Models of Health Education
Social Empowerment Model

The basis of this model lies in the concept that

action depends on the picture individuals have of
themselves and how they feel about themselves
Models of Health Education
Radical Model

Enable people to cooperate and work in group to

solve the problems by critical social analysis
Thank you
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