Summary

In this Study Session, you have learned that:

• Principles of health educations are basic rules and regulation that should be followed while delivering health education. They explain how health education can be given to a particular audience. These are the principles of educational diagnosis, known to unknown, credibility, and feedback.
  
• The principle of educational diagnosis is guiding your health education session towards "felt needs" of the community. Only a health education programme that is based on the community's interests will be successful.
• During your health education sessions, you should start talking about the things that your community can understand easily and then proceed to introduce new knowledge.
• At the end of every health education session, you must ask the participants for comment and feedback to ensure common understanding.
• The persuasion approach of health education is the deliberate attempt to influence other persons to do what we want them to do. This approach is used during epidemics and disasters.
• In the informed decision-making, approach, you give the people enough information, problem-solving and decision-making skills so that they can make their decisions.
• Challenges of health education include: Health education is not considered important when the people are not ill; People are preoccupied with many other daily activities; Health professionals routinely fail to provide health education and health education is largely related to behaviour.
• Health education activities can be done at three levels of disease prevention: Raising awareness at the community level in primary prevention. Encouraging early diagnosis and treatment at the secondary level and tertiary prevention such as rehabilitation.