Health Education Flashcards

Flashcards about Health Education based on lecture notes.

What is Health?

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

What is Public Health?

Is a science and art of promoting health, preventing disease and protecting the health of the public through organized community effort.

What is Health Promotion?

Any combination of educational, political, regulatory and organizational support for action and condition of living conducive to health of individual groups and communities.

What is Education?

Experiences that influences the way people perceived themselves in relation to their social, cultural, and physical environment, a complex and purposeful process for expecting learning.

What is Health Education?

Any combination of learning opportunities and teaching activities designed to facilitate voluntary adaptation of behavior that is conducive to health.

What is Advocacy?

An act or process of supporting a cause or an issue to influence decision makers for program or policy change.

What is Health Education (according to WHO)?

A tool to improve a population’s general health and wellness through promoting knowledge and health practices.

What is Mental Health?

Ability to learn and think clearly.

What is Physical Health?

Refers to anatomical integrity and physiological functioning of the body.

What is Social Health?

Ability to make and maintain acceptable interactions with other people.

What is Disease?

The existence of some pathology or abnormally of the body which is capable of detection using acceptable investigation method.

What is Sickness?

A state of social dysfunctions, a role that an individual assumes when ill.

According to the Global Strategy for Health for All by the year 2000, what are the main determinants of health that lay outside the health sector?

Food, water, sanitation, and housing.

What are the five areas in which Health Promotion action should be directed (according to the Ottawa Charter)?

Building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and re-orienting health services.

What is the Education Process?

Is the series of actions that takes place when people learn and gained knowledge, it is also a systematic, sequential, logical, scientifically based, planned course of action consisting of teaching and learning .

What is the Nursing Process?

Is an orderly systematic manner of determining the client’s problems, making plans to solve the problems, initiating the plan or assigning others to implement the plan, and evaluating the extent to which the plan has effectively resolved the problems identified.

What is Patient Education?

Is the process of teaching patients about their health condition, treatment options, and how to care for themselves.

What are the hallmarks of good teaching?

Professional competence, interpersonal relationship with students, and personal characteristics.

What are the personal qualities of an effective teacher in nursing?

Respects her student maturity and sense of responsibility, is psychologically secure in her own abilities, and has a sense of humor.

What are the professional qualities of an effective teacher in nursing?

Teaching lessons that stimulates students to think and learn, gives clear and concise assignments, and encourage student feedback on assigned lessons and activities done.

What are the principles of client teaching and learning?

Assess teaching needs of the client, assess readiness of the client to learn, and assess what the client knows.

What are the barriers to education?

Student factor, institutional factors, and teacher factors.

What are the three generations in the workforce?

Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y (Millennials).

What are the learning theories?

Cognitive theories, Behavioral Learning Theories, and Social Learning Theories.

What are the types of Behavioral Learning Theories?

Stimulus-Response, Connectionism Theory, Operant Conditioning Theory, Behaviorism Theory, and Contiguity Theory.

What are the types of Cognitive Theories on Learning?

Classical Conditioning Theory, Connectionism Theory, Field Theory, Discovery Theory, Schema Theory, Assimilation Theory

What are the Social Theories?

Social Learning Theory and Psychodynamic Theory.

What are the determinants of learning?

The needs of the learner, the state of readiness of the learner, and the preferred learning styles for processing information.

What is the educator's role in the learning process?

Assessing, providing, identifying, giving, reinforcing, and determining.

What are the important steps for learning needs?

Identify the learner, choose the right setting, collect data about the learner.

What are the criteria for prioritizing learning needs?

Mandatory needs, desirable needs, and possible needs.

What are the general methods to assess learning needs?

Informal conversation, structured interviews, and focus groups.

What are specific methods to assess learning needs of nursing staff?

Written job description, formal and informal request, and quality assurance reports.

What is readiness to learn?

The time when the learner demonstrates an interest in learning the information necessary to maintain optimal health or to become more skillful in a job.

What are the four types of readiness?

Physical readiness, emotional readiness, experiential readiness, and knowledge readiness.

What is physical readiness?

Measures of ability and complexity of task. Also environmental effects and health status.

What is emotional readiness?

Anxiety level, Support System, Motivation , and Risk-Taking Behavior

What is experiental readiness?

Level of aspirations, past coping mechanism, cultural background, and locus of control.

What is knowledge readiness?

Present knowledge base, cognitive ability, learning and reading disabilities, and learning styles.

What are learning styles?

Refers to the ways in which and condition under which learners most efficiently and most effectively perceive, process, store, and recall what they are attempting to learn and their preferred approaches to different learning tasks.

What are the methods to determine learning styles?

Observation, interview, and administration of learning styles instruments.

What are learning styles instruments?

Right-brain/left-brain and whole brain technique, field-independent/field dependent perceptions, and Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles.

What are Dunn and Dunn learning styles?

Environmental elements, emotional elements, sociological patterns, physical elements, and psychological elements.

What is Bloom's taxonomy?

Bloom's Taxonomy objectives categorize learning outcomes into three domains (cognitive, affective, psychomotor).

What skills are in the cognitive focus on intellectual skills and knowledge?

Remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.

What does the affective domain deal with concerning emotions, attitudes, values and interest related to learning?

Receiving, responding, valuing, organizing, and characterizing.

What does the psychomotor focuses on physical skills and motor abilities

Imitation, manipulation, precision, articulation, and naturalization.

What are the importance of using behavioral objectives?

Helps educators’ thinking on target and learner centered communicating to learners and health care team members what is planned for teaching and learning and helps learner understand what is expected of them so they keep track of their progress.

What are the three components of writing effective behavioral objectives?

Performance, condition, and criterion.

What does SMART stands for (in writing an objectives)

Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely.

What is a Teaching Plan?

A teaching plan is a blueprint to achieve the goal and the objectives that have been developed, the plan should indicate the purpose, content, methods tools, timing and evaluation of instruction.

What are the eight basic elements of a teaching plan?

Purpose, statement of the overall goal, list of objectives, an outline of the content to be covered in the teaching session.

What is a teaching method?

The way information is taught that brings the learner into contact with what is to learned.

What are the evaluation of teaching methods?

Does the teaching method help the learners to achieve the stated objectives is the learning activity accessible and acceptable to the learners who have been targeted? Is the teaching method efficient given the time, energy and resources available in relation to the number of learners, educators is trying to reach?

What are the general principles to instructional material?

the teacher must be familiar with the content and mechanics of a tool before using it. the printed, demonstration, and audiovisual materials can change learner behavior by influencing cognitive, affective and psychomotor development, no one tool is better than another to enhance learning .

What are the major components of Instructional materials?

Delivery system, content, and presentation.

What are the types of instructional materials?

Written materials, commercially prepared materials, self-composed materials, and demonstration materials.

How has technology affected health education?

The infrastructure now exist to link people around the world to one another to nurses and other healthcare professionals, and to a vast array of Web-based information.

What is Cybersecurity?

Effectiveness of the technologies, processes and practices designed to protect computer systems from unauthorized use or harm.

What is Guiding Principles of the e-Health Code of Ethics?

Candor, honesty, quality, informed concent, privacy,professionalism in online health care,responsible patnering and accountability.

Why are computer and information literacy an essential skill needed by nurses?

is a tremendous resource for both consumer and professional education. Nurses must possess information literacy skills and be prepared to teach these skills and be prepared to teach these same skills to patient, staff and students.

What are the steps to develop information literacy?

Reduce a problem or topic to a serchable command that can be used with a search engine or search directory and categorize webpage according tot heir purpose and identfy sources of potential bias that may influence the content is presented.

What are the criteria for evaluating health related website?

Accuracy, design, authors/sponsor and currency.

What are three types of evaluation

process (formative) . OUTCOMES (SUMMATIVE) Impact of and Evaluation

What is the goal of process (formative) Evaluation

is to make necessary adjustment to an educational activity as soon as they are identified, such as changes in personnel, materials, facilities, teaching methods, learning objectuives or even the educator’s own attitude.

What is the goal of OUTCOMES (SUMMATIVE) of Evaluation

to determine the effets of teaching efforts outcome (summative) evaluation measures the changes that result form teaching and learning. This evaluation summarizes what happened based on the education intervention.

What is the goal of impact Evaluation

is to determine the relative effects of education on the institution or community