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HEALTH EDUCATION AS AN IMPORTANT TOOL - Coggle Diagram
HEALTH EDUCATION AS AN IMPORTANT TOOL
Health education is the main, inherent and complementary at the same time element of health promotion
Its aim is to raise awareness, expand knowledge, gain skills and shape a health-oriented attitude of particular individuals who are also perceived as elements of a society
a process in which people learn
how to take care of their health and the health of their community.
The process concentrates on making people realize the relation between one’s health, their lifestyle, physical and social setting.
It does not solely mean transferring the
knowledge, but it allows the learner to apply the knowledge effectively - consider, think, make decisions and take actions concerning health, gain skills which help to improve it
As a result of health education, awareness increases, an ability to make decisions concerning health enhances, knowledge and skills connected not only with health and sickness but also the prevention and coping with difficult situations improve.
The scope of knowledge and skills regarding the proper use of the healthcare expands, both the level of social, political awareness and the awareness of environmental factors affecting health increases
to create the conditions for change, the growth of the competence of individuals and groups in the field of individual actions for health at different levels of a social life
It has become a universal tool, which may be used at every stage of prevention enabling the solutions of problems connected with the specificity of its particular levels.
Educational programmes directed to every age group and groups of patients with diagnosed diseases e.g. diabetes,
evidence it
Health-oriented education is not a novelty.
It has been implemented in Poland since 1982 when various prophylactic programmes, based on the guidelines prepared by excellent
specialists, were introduced to schools
Taking into consideration experience and strategies for health protection, health education programmes are intensively administered
in a school environment
Health-Friendly School with the aim to shape health-oriented attitudes, which will result in a decreased incidence of diseases in society in the future
health education is practically included in all health and strategic programmes carried out at various levels of social life
in a family, school, work, towns and cities, regions, global societies and international communities
example: National Health Programme against Diseases of Affluence, National Health Program for Fighting Cancer, the Strategy of Development of Healthcare in Poland,
A created model of education for change takes into account a multiple causality of diseases taking into consideration not only behavioral
but also social, economic and political determinants of health and the necessity to implement educational health programmes at three levels: an individual, community and whole society.
Family medicine holds the most important place in such a system as a point of initiation of shaping health-oriented behavior
Medical staff is considered the best and the most reliable source of knowledge on health.
Such expectations increase the importance of primary care physicians in preventing diseases and shaping health-oriented attitudes in a given society
The role of a family physician, in the face of healthcare contracts, apart from treating means also preventing and educating.
Adding these tasks to the competence of family medicine gains more importance and demonstrates a strong tendency to become a priority especially in the context of a long-term health policy.
the existing obstacles in the form of a faulty organization of the healthcare, the lack of cooperation with a patient and their environment or insufficient time which family physicians
can devote to a patient make it difficult to fulfill the educational role.
health education and broadly defined preventive actions are becoming more and more significant as one of change factors in the management strategies of the healthcare.
Education of a patient has both clinical and social advantages.
Thanks to the transferred knowledge, shaping attitudes and acquisition of certain skills, patients receive help in dealing with health problems which influences their mood, satisfaction and the process of recovery
health education is perceived
as an inseparable part of a high-quality healthcare.
It has been demonstrated that health education together with other actions typical of health promotion can contribute to the decrease of costs in the healthcare.
It has a crucial meaning for the management of the healthcare especially in the face of chronic lack of financing in medical services and rising costs of care and treatment connected with the growth of the incidence of chronic diseases.
education of a patient constitutes one of the most important challenges for the healthcare, especially in the context of enhancing its effectiveness.
Primary care physicians play and will play the leading role in the aforementioned situation since patients expect to gain knowledge on health and shaping health-oriented attitudes from them.
A constantly growing impact on health education and promotion in modern healthcare systems makes the quote ‘better the prevention than cure’ become the determinant for medicine in the future.
The most crucial conclusion in the face of the aforementioned facts is that the role of a primary care physician as a person responsible for health education of society will constitute one of the cornerstones of medicine.