HEALTH EDUCATION

Concept of Health Education

Health education is one important activity that is commonly undertaken to promote health. It is the communication of information that enables people to make decisions about to follow those health-related activities at all stages of life which are conducive for proper health.

It is concerned with communicating on those areas that are related to water supply, sanitation, community health, mental health, disease control, personal hygiene, disaster management cycle, reducing the risk of communicable disease and its transmission, proper nutrition, alcohol and drugs, accident and first aid etc.
The Aim of Health Education should be -

1. Help students to assimilate the body if knowledge appropriate to health education.
2. Expose students to a variety of activities and experience related to health education.
3. Help individuals develop a sound understanding of their total development and enable them to attain positive self-images.
4. Provide opportunities for students make personal decisions related to their intellectual, physical and emotional development.
5. Allow students to experience social relations that will encourage desirable behaviour, leadership and co-operation with others.

Objectives of Physical Education -
For Students -

1. A positive attitude towards physical fitness and good health.
2. A personal value system and satisfactory relationship with peers.
3. increased self-awareness and a positive self concept.
4. independence, interdependence, and a sense of responsibility.
5. An understanding of human sexuality.
6. An understanding of appropriate factual information and concepts.

For Patients and Public -

1. To increase public awareness that disease are significant public health problem.
2. To increase public awareness of symptoms and signs of disease.
3. To improve the knowledge and attitudes of patients about detection, treatment and control of disease.
4. To promote the family and community educational material essential for positive lifestyle habits.
5. To create public awareness about the ill=effects of alcohol, smoking and drugs, etc.

For Health professionals -

1. To increase knowledge, attitude and skills of all health professionals regarding sign, symptoms and management strategies for health hazards to improve disease control.
2. To encourage health professionals to treat patients carefully.
3. To develop resource and material for use of health professionals.
4. To promote research all over the world to curb health hazards.
5. To encourage continuing educational programmes on accurate information on diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

Health Promotion and Health Education

Resources for health educators and health promotion specialists.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

• AHRQ Releases New Spanish Language Guides for Patients - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today released a series of free evidence-based guides designed to help Spanish speakers understand and compare the risks, benefits and side effects of treatments for eight health conditions. The guides provide valuable information that patients can use in talking with their clinicians.

• Checklists Help Men and Women Stay Healthy at 50-Plus - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and AARP developed two new checklists that outline the steps men and women over age 50 need to take to stay healthy and prevent disease.

• Consumers & Patients - Information in English and Spanish on many health issues.

• Fact Sheets - Information on many health issues.

• Patient Safety Network - A web-based resource featuring the latest news and essential resources on patient safety. The site offers weekly updates of patient safety literature, news, tools, and meetings ("What's New"), and a vast set of carefully annotated links to important research and other information on patient safety ("The Collection").

• Preventive Services - Access to scientific evidence, recommendations on clinical preventive services, and information on how to implement recommended preventive services in clinical practice.

• Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital - A guide that providers can use to give patients the information they need to help them care for themselves when they leave the hospital.

• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence - Pathfinder page links to materials that help tobacco users quit.

• Why It's Wise to Use a Health Advocate - Listening carefully to your doctor and asking questions about a diagnosis or test results can help you get better care.

American Cancer Society (ACS)

• Asian Pacific Islander Cancer Education Materials Tool - Searchable online database of Asian language cancer materials.

American Public Health Association (APHA)

• Get Ready - The Get Ready campaign provides tools and information to prepare for public health emergencies and disasters.

• Health Disparities Database - Searchable database of projects and interventions addressing health disparities; allows searches to be narrowed by age.

• Healthy You - Healthy You is a free health tipsheet published 10 times a year by The Nation's Health, the official newspaper of the American Public Health Association. Healthy You offers easy-to-understand materials on a range of health topics. Each issue addresses a single health topic.

American Self-Help Group Clearinghouse

• Self-Help Group Sourcebook Online - A searchable database that includes information on over 1,100+ national, international and demonstrational model self-help support groups, ideas for starting groups, and opportunities to link with others to develop needed new national or international groups.

Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)

• This is Public Health toolkit - ASPH has developed a "This is Public Health" toolkit to serve as a resource for anyone who is interested in educating others about public health issues or the field of public health.

• What is Public Health? - Describes the many areas of public health for prospective students or others who want to know more about the field.

Cancer Control PLANET

• Cancer Control PLANET - This PLANET portal provides access to data and resources that can help planners, program staff, and researchers to design, implement and evaluate evidence-based cancer control programs.

Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange

• The Rehabilitation Provider's Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-Born - Provides specific information on cultural perspectives of foreign-born persons in the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• BAM! - Health topics from the CDC of interest to youth.

• CDC en Español - CDC en Español is CDC's gateway for health and safety information in Spanish.

• CDC Social Media Tools Guidelines & Best Practices - Guidance documents for using social media tools to reach target audiences with strategic, effective and user-centric health interventions.

• CDC's Healthy Communities Program - CDC's Healthy Communities Program works to engage communities and mobilize national networks to focus on chronic disease prevention.

• CDC-TV - Online videos that cover a variety of health, safety and preparedness topics. The videos include single-topic presentations as well as series for children, parents and public health professionals. Most are short and all include captioning for the hearing-impaired.

• CDCynergy - CDCynergy is a multimedia CD-ROM used for planning, managing, and evaluating public health communication programs. This innovative tool is used to guide and assist users in designing health communication interventions within a public health framework.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Marketing - CDC's National Center for Health Marketing is responsible for creating, communicating and delivering innovative health marketing programs, products, and services that are customer-centered, high-impact, and science-based.

• Community Health Resources - Searchable database of CDC's best resources to help plan, implement and evaluate community health interventions and programs to address chronic disease and health disparities issues. Resources include planning guides, evaluation frameworks, communication materials, behavioral and risk factor data, fact sheets, scientific articles, key reports and state and local program contacts.

• Excite: Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology - CDC teaching materials to introduce students to public health and epidemiology.

• Gateway to Health Communication & Social Marketing Practice - Resources to build social marketing and health communication campaigns and programs.

• Get Smart for Healthcare - The goal of Get Smart for Healthcare is to optimize the use of antimicrobial agents in inpatient healthcare settings by focusing on strategies to help hospitals and other inpatient facilities implement interventions to improve antibiotic use. Interventions and programs designed to improve antibiotic use are also referred to as "antimicrobial stewardship."

• Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work - Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to resist the effects of an antibiotic designed to treat infections. Every time a person takes an antibiotic, bacteria that normally live in our bodies are killed, but resistant germs may be left to grow and multiply. Repeated use of antibiotics can lead to an increase in dangerous bacteria that are difficult to treat. These are often referred to by the media as "superbugs."

• Global Health Odyssey - CDC's museum's homepage with items of interest to children, teachers, and other CDC visitors.

• Health Topics A to Z - Listing with quick links of health topics found on the CDC website.

• Healthier Worksite Initiative - Resource for workforce health promotion (WHP) program planners in state and federal government. Planners at non-government workplaces may also find this Web site useful in generating ideas for WHP in their organizations. The site provides information, resources, and step-by-step toolkits to help improve the health of employees.

• National Immunization Program - Childhood vaccination schedules and vaccine safety precautions.

• PHIL: Public Health Image Library - Public Health Image Library containing a collection of public domain images.

• Power to Prevent - Curriculum to help educate African American communities on how to prevent and control diabetes through healthy eating and physical activity.

• TB Education & Training Resources - A searchable, comprehensive database of materials from national and international organizations. At this "one-stop" site of tuberculosis (TB) education and training resources, you can search for materials by language, target audience, and format.

• Travelers' Health - Health information on specific travel destinations.

• VERB Youth Media Campaign - National, multicultural, social marketing campaign that encourages young people ages 9-13 years to be physically active every day.

• VFC Program: Vaccines for Uninsured Children

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

• CMS Health Literacy Toolkit - Provides a detailed and comprehensive set of tools to help make written material in printed formats easier for people to read, understand, and use.

Community Tool Box

• Community Tool Box - The Tool Box provides over 6,000 pages of practical information to support your work in promoting community health and development. This web site is created and maintained by the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas (U.S.A). Developed in collaboration with AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts, the site has been on line since 1995, and it continues to grow on a weekly basis.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)

• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health - Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. CCPH sponsors conferences, training institutes and customized consultation to strengthen community-academic linkages in public health. The CCPH website contains a wealth of resources on practice-based learning, community-based participatory research and community-engaged scholarship.

Department of Defense (DoD) U.S.

• Deployment Health and Family Readiness Library - Provides access to deployment health and family readiness information for service members, families and healthcare providers. This online library includes fact sheets, guides and other products on a wide variety of topics.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) U.S.

• Flu.gov - One-stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information.

• Health Literacy Online - Guide for writing and designing easy-to-use health websites.

• Healthfinder - Federal Government website that offers trusted prevention and wellness resources for consumers including actionable health information and tools presented in an easy-to-use format.

• National Health Observances Toolkit - The toolkit features one health observance for each month of the year and provides information and ideas for health promotion activities.

• StopBullying.gov - StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on how kids, teens, young adults, parents, educators and others in the community can prevent or stop bullying.

• The Surgeon General's Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation 2010 - Highlights the trends, health consequences, and causes related to the obesity epidemic and also proposes health-promoting actions that can be taken by multiple sectors of society.

ECRI

• Patient Reference Guide - Comprehensive patient reference guides from ECRI, an international independent nonprofit agency and Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization. ECRI is designated as an Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. ECRI's mission is to improve the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of healthcare.

Education Development Center (EDC)

• Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Protection - The Higher Education Center's purpose is to help college and community leaders develop, implement, and evaluate programs and policies to reduce student problems related to alcohol and other drug use and interpersonal violence.

Eppi-Centre UK

• Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews (DoPHER) - Focused coverage of systematic and non-systematic reviews of effectiveness in health promotion and public health worldwide. This register currently contains details of over 2,500 reviews of health promotion and public health effectiveness.

Family Health International

• Inventory of Program Evaluation Tools and Guidelines - Inventory of guidelines, frameworks, and manuals that provide users with instructions and step-by-step guidance to conduct program evaluations and inform program design and improvement.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) U.S.

• FDA A-Z Index - An index of health topics available from the Food and Drug Administration.

• FDA For Consumers - This resource features timely consumer health stories on pressing FDA topics, provides links to its most requested information, and includes interactive content.

• FDA Kids' Home Page - A website filled with fun activities for kids.

• FDA Radiological Health Program - This website provides information about FDA's Radiological Health Program including its 2005-2010 plan to adapt to current public health needs.

• FDA Tobacco Products - Provides information resources on tobacco products for consumers and healthcare professionals.

• FDA's Drug Safety Initiative - Drug safety information for patients, consumers, and healthcare professionals.

• Food Safety for Moms-To-Be - Easy-to-understand information about foodborne illness for pregnant women. This site is in both in English and Spanish.

• Mammography Quality Standards Act and Program - Information for mammography facility personnel, inspectors, and consumers about the implementation of the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 (MQSA). The FDA adminsters several quality and standards activities. This is one example.

• Medical Device Safety - A resource to educate and inform health care professionals on patient safety issues relating to medical devices.

• Medicines In My Home - An interactive and educational program about the safe and effective use of over-the-counter medicines.

• MEDWATCH: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program - MedWatch provides timely safety information on medical products and drugs regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). MedWatch also allows healthcare professionals and consumers to report serious problems with any FDA regulated product and any serious adverse event.

• Office of Women's Health - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Women's Health (OWH) serves as a champion for women's health both within and outside the agency.

• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Patient Care - Information about personal protective equipment (PPE) that is regulated by the FDA for use in patient care activities including surgical masks and surgical N-95 respirators, medical gloves, and surgical gowns.

• Recalls, Market Withdrawals, and Safety Alerts

• Spanish Language Publications from the FDA - Provides consumers with information on a variety of health related topics. Also provides regulated industry information on drugs, good and veterinary medicine

George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services

• Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) - Provides up-to-date information for health professionals, educators and families to assist in promoting the health of children through school-connected programs.

Georgetown University, National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH)

• Maternal and Child Health Library - Provides the Materal and Child Health community with accurate and timely information on a broad range of topics.

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

• Cultural Competence Resources for Health Care Providers - Highlights HRSA-supported projects on cross-cultural health care in areas such as assessment, culture and language, specific diseases, health professions, research, special populations, technical assistance, training, and web-based learning.

• Poison Help - On the Web site, you will find tools for teaching your community about poison prevention. You can learn what Poison Help offers and when a person should call a local poison center.

Healthy Roads Media

• Healthy Roads Media - This site contains free audio, written and multimedia health education materials in a number of languages.

Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) US

• RE-AIM.ORG - RE-AIM stands for: Reach,Efficacy/Effectiveness, Adoption,Implementation, and Maintenance. RE-AIM provides a framework/model for planning, conducting, and evaluating health behavior interventions. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the RE-AIM Web site provides calculators, checklists, citations to health behavior intervention studies that have used the RE-AIM framework, and other tools and resources for both researchers and community leaders.

Medical Library Association (MLA)

• Health Information Literacy - Resources on health literacy including training and toolkits for health and information professionals.

Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)

• RN Barr Library - Provides resources of interest to the public health community, including links to hot topics, publications and news resources.

National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)

• Chronic Disease Prevention Toolkit - Publications, tools, and other resources related to chronic disease prevention and health promotion.

National Eye Institute, NIH

• Healthy Eyes Toolkit - Toolkit to help public health educators and others educate the public about the role of regular eye exams in maintaining good eye health. It includes a variety of resources such as web links, e-cards, PSAs, sample text messages, fact sheets, and downloadable posters, bookmarks, and stickers that can be used to promote the importance of eye exams.

• Healthy Vision Community Programs Database - Searchable collection of community-based eye health education programs from U.S. states and territories.

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

• Public Health Excellence at NICE - Provides guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health.

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

• Helping Older Adults Search for Health Information Online: A Toolkit for Trainers - Training materials to help older adults find reliable, up-to-date online health information on their own. The training features two websites from the National Institutes of Health -- NIHSeniorHealth.gov and MedlinePlus.gov.

• Stay safe in cold weather!

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

• Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free - Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free, a coalition of Governors' spouses, Federal agencies, and public and private organizations, is an initiative to prevent the use of alcohol by children ages 9

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• NIH Curriculum Supplement Series - Interactive teaching units that combine cutting-edge science research discoveries from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with state-of-the-art instructional materials. Each supplement is a teacher's guide to two weeks of lessons on science and human health.

National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.

• American Indian Health - An information portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of American Indians

• Household Products Database - Health & Safety Information on Household Products.

• MedlinePlus - MedlinePlus provides extensive information from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, and other trusted sources on over 600 diseases and conditions.

• MEDLINEplus - How to Write Easy to Read Health Materials - Guidelines to create easy-to-read health materials including links to resources on health literacy.

• ToxTown - An interactive guide to commonly encountered toxic substances and environmental health risks.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)

• Multilingual Consumer Health Information - Web site contains a list of links that contain consumer health information. Each link also contains a list of languages that are available for the resource.

Native American Connections

• Native American Connections - Provides culturally appropriate resources for Native Americans and special needs populations.

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

• Take Care New York - Contains Take Care New York Action Steps to improve your health, with specific things you can do, along with Additional Resources to help you follow through.

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, HHS (ODPHP)

• Health Communication Activities - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's Web site brings together work on the Healthy People 2010 Health Communication Focus Area, the Prevention Communication Research Database, and consumer and patient e-health.

• Prevention Communication Research Database - Searchable collection of audience research conducted or sponsored by HHS agencies. The database was developed to highlight key prevention research findings that may not be widely known or published in peer-reviewed journals.

• Quick Guide to Health Literacy - Provides an overview of health literacy concepts and techniques for improving health literacy. Designed for government employees, grantees and contractors, and community partners working in healthcare and public health fields. The tools can be applied to healthcare delivery, policy, administration, communication, and education activities aimed at the public.

Public Health Foundation (PHF)

• Public Health Foundation Learning Resource Center - High quality training and health promotion materials that include information on preparedness; immunization; epidemiology; diabetes; infectious diseases; performance management; asthma and allergies; and health disparities. Materials are available in a variety of formats, including print, computer-based, and video.

Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN)

• Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN) - The Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN) is a national collaborative partnership that provides quality multilingual, health information resources for those providing care to resettled refugees.

Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

• HealthComm Key - HealthComm Key is a searchable database containing comprehensive summaries from published peer-reviewed studies related to health communication.

Rural Assistance Center (RAC)

• Rural Assistance Center - The Rural Assistance Center (RAC) is a national resource on rural health and human services information. Information specialists are available to provide customized assistance for rural topics and funding resources, links users to organizations and furnish relevant publications from the RAC resource library.

• USA - Mexico Border Health - Resource for residents along the U.S.-Mexico border and others seeking information on health and human services for border communities.

Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)

• Health Disparities and Social Inequities: Framing a Transdisciplinary Research Agenda in Health Education - View panel presentations and the setting of a research agenda on the role of health education in eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities. Webcast by the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation.

• SOPHE Unintentional Injury and Violence Prevention - The SOPHE injury prevention website is designed to strengthen the connection between behavioral science and health education with more comprehensive approaches to unintentional injury and violence prevention.

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

• National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs, 2010 - The National Directory is a listing of Federal, State, local and private facilities that provide substance abuse treatment services.

The University of Iowa, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

• Public Health Resource guide for University of Iowa students, residents, fellows and faculty - Address the information needs of Iowa public health professionals by creating an easy-to-use web site that emphasizes local and state resources and provides links to National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resources.

Tufts University Medical School

• Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics - The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA) is a non-governmental organization that fights to preserve the effectiveness of antimicrobial drugs. The organization conducts research and collects and disseminates information to control antimicrobial resistance and ensure access to effective antibiotics.

Unite for Sight

• Unite for Sight - Unite for Sight works to build healthier communities through disease prevention, eye health promotion and health education. This organization works nationally and internationally to develop sustainable solutions to reduce health disparities.

United Health Foundation

• United Health Foundation - UnitedHealth Group established the United Health Foundation in 1999 as a nonprofit, private foundation with a mission to support the health and medical decisions made by physicians, health professionals, community leaders and individuals that lead to better health outcomes and healthier communities.

University of Hawaii at Manoa

• Hawaii Public Health Information Virtual Emporium - Provides public health professionals hands-on training in the use of local and web-based health databases, and with a website which can furnish them with timely, convenient access to information resources to help them improve the health of the public they serve.

University of Minnesota Libraries

• American Social Hygiene Posters, ca.1910-1970 - This site offers a searchable and browsable database of posters on a variety of social issues such as dance, family, hygiene, mental health, reproduction, sexual abstinence, and more. From the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

University of Minnesota

• Outbreak at Watersedge - A Public Health Discovery Game - An interactive computer game developed by the University of Minnesota Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health that is designed to introduce high school students to the field of public health.

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

• HIA Connect - Resources and information about health impact assessment (HIA).

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

• The National Hispanic Leadership on Cancer: En Accion - An initiative to address the burden of cancer disparities and stimulate behavior modification to improve public health in the Hispanic/Latino community.

University of Washington

• Connecting Youth to Quality Health Information - Interactive lesson plan for school health personnel, educators, and librarians that aims to increase high school students' capabilities to access and evaluate quality health information on the Internet.

Washington State Department of Health

• Health Education Resource Exchange (H.E.R.E.) - Online clearinghouse of public health education and health promotion materials including posters, brochures, fact sheets and other educational materials for population-based health promotion activities in a variety of settings.