NSCH 111 Study Unit 6: Health Education in the Community

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts from the lecture notes on health education in the community.

Needs Assessment

A planned process that identifies the needs of an individual or group.

Target Group

The individuals to whom an intervention program is aimed at and that would benefit from the intervention.

Planning

In the context of health education, it involves making decisions regarding what topic to address, what problems to attack, and where to direct time and resources.

Goals

The broad purpose of the health education encounter.

Objectives

The specific outcomes that need to be achieved as a result of a health education program.

Assessment

Assessment of the audience, their health education needs, and the learning environment using the dimensions of health in the dimensions model.

Biophysical Considerations

Learning needs arising from age and developmental level of audience.

Psychological Considerations

Awareness of target population of need for health education.

Physical Environmental Considerations

Conditions in physical environment giving rise to health education need.

Sociocultural Considerations

Effects of learners’ peers on motivation to learn.

Behavioural Considerations

Common health behaviours in population giving rise to need for health education.

Health System Considerations

Emphasis of health education by local health care providers.

Example of a diagnosis

Need for education regarding effective modes of discipline appropriate to child’s age due to limited knowledge of child development, poor parental role models, and poor stress management skills.

Planning health-education programs

Prioritizing learning needs, developing goals and objectives, selecting and sequencing content, selecting teaching strategies, preparation of materials and planning evaluation.

Prioritizing learning needs

Determine the risk factors in the population and the benefits if it can be changed.

The development of goals

Specifies the broad goal of the health education encounter.

Objectives

Specific outcomes that need to be achieved as a result of the health education program .

Selecting and sequencing content

Nurse usually has greater knowledge of a particular topic.

Selecting teaching strategies

Characteristics of the audience, content and objectives, program budget, time available, cultural appropriateness and Environment.

Preparation of material

Needs to be appropriate for the audience

Preparation of material (2)

Take language and literacy into account.

Plan evaluation

Plan for the development of criteria to measure the effectiveness of the health education session e.g. evaluation.

Implementation of the health-education session

Speak in the patients’ language, do not use difficult medical terms, Keep message short

Implementation

Gain attention of audience.

Implementation (2)

Reinforces pertinent points.

Diagnostic evaluation

Accuracy of needs assessment is assessed.

Assessment

Biophysical factors

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Psychological factors

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Physical environmental factors

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Sociocultural factors

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Behavioural factors

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Health system factors

Scenario

The community of Syferfontein lives on a farm.

Assignment

Assess the health education needs of the community according to the six dimensions of health.

Assignment

Formulate an educational diagnosis.

Assignment

Plan a health education programme for the Syferfontein community.

Assignment

Implement a health education programme for the Syferfontein community.

Assignment

Evaluate your health education programme.

Formative evaluation

The way the program was carried out is examined

Summative evaluation

The focus may be on the program outcome, impact or both