Personal Context: The Importance Of Health Education

8.1 Personal Context:

Health education helps to teach the people how they may improve their living conditions and maintain good health. It aim at developing their sense of responsibility for taking good care of their health conditions as individuals, members of families, and as part of the communities. In communicable disease control, health education commonly includes an appraisal of what is known by a population about a disease, an assessment of habits and attitudes of the people as they relate to spread and frequency of the disease, and the presentation of specific means to remedy observed deficiencies.

8.2 Social context:

Health education is also an effective tool that helps improve health in developing nations. It not only teaches

 Additionally, women can be prone to osteoporosis, alcohol abuse, psychological disorders, human immunodeficiency virus infection, and violence. McGraw-Hill Higher (2008).

9.4 Application in current job:

In my current job I understand that the best care for women to maintain and promote their health involve preventive care such as screening tests to identify any under laying disease and give prompt treatment accordingly. Give sound health education about the screening test and the risk factors to create awareness. And help in referral and follow up services.

9.4 Current research:

Current research as regards women’s health came with the following outcomes-

Historically, research for women only focused on diseases affecting fertility and

10. People with disability: This is taken from module 9.1 of the Public health nursing in Block