Factors Affecting Health Education

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2.10.2 Social context
Today, health care is much more complex. The proliferation of information available to family and to their patients has fundamentally changed to suit in the global technology change. The information given to the family nowadays is not the end, the family is exposed and has an access to internet, computers where the read and can challenge any given information to them. We need to turn masses of education data, science, and clinical evidence into clinical knowledge. This information must be available to families, physicians, and care teams. And they must have access to technology and tools to make the right thing easier to do.
3.0 CURRENT RELATED RESEARCH
3.1 Trends affecting health care
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It hopes to motivate them with whatever interests they may have in improving their living conditions. Its aim come is to develop in them a sense of responsibility for health conditions for themselves as individuals, as members of families, and as 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. The National Health Education Standards (NHES) are written expectations for what students should know and be able to do by grades 2, 5, 8, and 12 to promote personal, family, and community health. The standards provide a framework for curriculum development and selection, instruction, and student assessment in health education. [American ass for health …show more content…

Knowledge has been democratized: patients now commonly search for information from the media. Patients before coming to your clinic the first search for information. The idea of patients seeking support and insight from communities of individuals with similar problems—pioneered more than 75 years ago by Alcoholics Anonymous—has been adopted by groups ranging from patients with cancer to families of patients with Alzheimer’s. But in today’s incarnations, the meetings are online, not in the local church basement. [Evin MD.com] Not only does today’s patient expect to have a virtual relationship with his or her doctor, but the data that inform this relationship everything from the media for any condition can now be wirelessly transmitted from a digital device to the physician’s computer, where it can be analyzed and acted upon. In the old days, the office visit (or the hospitalization) was the only way to meet your doctor or nurses but by the information age, everything has