...Health Education Tammy Arfmann HCA 331 Introduction to Health Care Education Prof. Mona Chin February 18, 2013 The health education field has expanded in many ways over the past years and will continue to expand over the upcoming years due to the increasing resources that are available for the individuals. The health education field is a vast profession that has greatly impacted many individuals with the information that the individuals provide. This paper will discuss the health education field and profession in greater detail as far as what has happened over the years and the way the profession has changed. It will also analyze a website that covers an HIV prevention program and will also provide a description of a website that has been created to cover heart disease. There are many different events that have helped to shape health education and the health education profession. Three of the events that have impacted the health education field the most are the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Social Security Act. According to Cottrell, Girvan, & McKenzie (2012), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act “bill encourages and promotes worksite wellness programs, encourages evidence-based community prevention and wellness programs, and provides strong support for school based health centers” (p.69). The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provide the...
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...Introduction to Health Education Instructor: Monica Vargas Erika Hernandez Date: 12/16/12 In this assignment mentions the overall of a Health Promotions and the Education. We have learned in this five week course from the word meaning of health to actually becoming a health educator and the roles that they play in any kind of work setting. As you get into reading this assignment you will also understand and relate to these professional people play a huge role in our day to day lives. The word health itself has a “dynamic state or condition of the human organism that is multidimensional (i.e. physical, emotional, social, intellectual, spiritual, and occupational) in nature, a resource for living, and results from a person’s interactions with and adaptations to his or her environment” (McKenzie, Pinger, & Kotecki, 2012, p.5) (Chapter 1). A health education as mentioned in our text is “ any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound of theories that provide individuals, groups, and communities the opportunity to acquire information and the skills needed to make the quality health decisions” (Joint Committee, 2001, p.99) (Chapter 1). There were many historical events that have happened in our past that shaped up in the health education. I have found three major events that I found were an interesting and would like to share with you. The first historical major event was in the 1900 to 1950s; Charles Winslow defined the public health to be focused...
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...Microsoft Word document. 1. Define patient compliance and explain its importance in your field. Patient compliance means that patients follow what is directed to them by yielding to their health care professionals treatment plan. Patient compliance is crucial in my field because in order for patients to get better they must follow the treatment plan that is specified. If patients do not comply with the doctors suggested treatment plan then they could potentially become very ill and possibly need more medical attention. This could result in more time taken from the medical professional and higher cost for the patient due to more medical needs. 2. Identify the health care professionals' role in compliance and give examples of ways in which the health care professional may actually contribute to noncompliance. The health care professionals’ role in compliance is to have a good professional-patient relationship. This consist of using collaboration with the patient and other professionals, showing the patient that you care, educating the patient on all aspects of the treatment plan, and creating an open relationship with the patient. The provider may contribute to noncompliance by not realizing the patient’s adherence to the treatment plan, which could be caused by lack of education regarding the severity. Another factor is that health care professionals often have misconceptions regarding their patients who could potentially be at risk for noncompliance. 3. Compare compliance...
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...Promoting health in secondary schools Ruth Joyce Marilyn Toft and Eric Winstone The authors Ruth Joyce is County Adviser in Drugs and Health Education, Cambridge County Council, Cambridge, UK. Marilyn Toft is Training Co-ordinator at Lewisham Education Authority, Lewisham, UK. Eric Winstone is Deputy Principal of Sir Harry Smith Community College, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, UK. Abstract Describes the Promoting Health in Secondary Schools project, which was commissioned by the Health Education Authority in January 1994. The aim of the project was to support regional and local education and health professionals and colleagues in secondary schools in their efforts to develop effective whole-school approaches to health at the levels of both policy and practice. The work was coordinated by the Institute of Education and Goldsmith’s College, University of London. Gives, as an example of what can be achieved, a range of future projects identified by one of the secondary schools involved. Concludes that the project was able to stimulate healthy alliances, create opportunities for sharing effective practice and influence local funding priorities. Evaluation showed that health issues, if developed in a whole-school context, can articulate closely with wider school and community concerns about making school more effective and increasing school achievement. Regrets that the project was not extended beyond the stage described. The Health Education Authority commissioned the Promoting...
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...Identify and describe each of the seven Areas of Responsibility of a Health Education Specialist. Discuss the importance of each area of responsibility and provide examples of each. Responsibility I: Assess Needs, Assets, and Capacity for Health Education: With this responsibility one must assess the need for the population surrounding them. This will help to solve the problems for the individual or group. This will help stakeholders to gather data, analyze the data in order to know what areas needs to be focused on. When the stakeholders get the data together they then can proceed with developing a plan with the information collected. When gathering information one looks at the area and population that is covered, how many people are infected, age group that is affected. Responsibility II: Plan Health Education: When planning involve more than finding a location its about how good written and oral skills one has. One must be competent in developing goals on which the foundation will established for the program that is meant for. It is an importance in finding the right stakeholders for the job in order to support each other and help to develop a program together. Responsibility III: Implement Health Education: In this stage it is important to develop a program and putting it together. When developing a program one puts the data together that was collected and find materials that would be educational in teaching the techniques. One must really focus on...
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...Article Critique - Adherence to ocular hypotensive therapy: Patient health education needs and views on group education This paper evaluates a medical journal article entitled, “Adherence to ocular hypotensive therapy: Patient health education needs and views on group education,” by Waterman et.al. published on the Journal of Patient Preference and Adherence, Volume 7, pages 55-63, 2013. While the title is apparent to the clinicians on the topic that the article is looking at, it may be slightly challenging for the general public to understand the term "ocular hypotensive therapy" in the title as it was not explained anywhere in the article. The term may be phrased in a more understandable manner such as "therapy to reduce eye pressure" or "glaucoma therapy" as this article is from an open access medical journal focusing on patient preference and adherence, the general public who are interested in this topic will have access to it and they intend to understand and get useful information from the article. Therefore, the title should be as clear as possible to stimulate the interest of not only the clinicians but also the general public to encourage them to read. Nonetheless, after reading the article, the title is considered as precise and concise in reflecting the content of the work. As the title of the article suggests, the main issue discussed in the article was that as in other long-term conditions, there is a tendency in patients with glaucoma did not adhere to their prescribed...
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...Sexual health education in the schools: Questions & Answers 3rd Edition Sexual health education in the schools: Questions & Answers (3rd edition) A resource with answers to your questions about sexual health education in our schools This resource document was prepared by Alexander McKay, Ph.D, Research Coordinator, and Mary Bissell, Ph.D., Information Services Coordinator, Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN) contEntS IntroductIon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 QuEStIonS: 1. Sexual health and Canadian youth: How are we doing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Why do we need sexual health education in the schools?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Do parents want sexual health education taught in the schools? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. Do young people want sexual health education taught in the schools? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5. What values are taught in school-based sexual health education?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6. Does providing youth with sexual health education lead to earlier or more frequent sexual activity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7. Is there...
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...of Nursing Leading Change Advancing Health" Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V Review Of the IOM Report: "The Future of Nursing Leading Change Advancing Health" This is a Review of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report: "The Future of Nursing Leading change Advancing Health. Primarily focusing on sections 3 Transforming Practice, 4 Transforming Education, and 5 Transforming Leadership. IOM: The Future of Nursing Leading Change Advancing Health The Institute of Medicine (IOM) launched a two-year study to assess the current state of nursing as a profession and provide recommendations for transforming the nursing profession. The key messages and recommendations that they come up with as a result of this study provide a synopsis of the report from the Committee on the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the IOM. These key messages and recommendations provide a "how to" blueprint for the future of nursing (IOM Report, 2011). IOM Key Messages As a result of the study, the IOM committee came up with 4 key messages that structure the main points, discussion and recommendations in this report: 1. Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training. 2. Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression. 3. Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States. 4. Effective...
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...0911 Methods and Materials 2237 A Health Educator that commits : MY philosophy of health education Our health is very important. Without out good health we cannot function to our full potential. Good health promotion and education is very important to our societies. Health education is needed to teach the community about all aspects of their wellbeing. It helps to let people know what is good for them and what it not. Who is more prone to what disease and all the risk factors associated with it. Health education is all about promoting good eating habits and exercising on a regular basis. It informs people about how they could stay healthy and be strong. Health education can be hard to teach because different ethnicities can suffer from different diseases. It is important to make everyone feel equal but explain who and who is more likely to inherit what disease. For example diabetes (I & II) is more common among African Americans than other races. Health educators should always have a nice equilibrium between the learners and not make anyone feel put on the spot or uncomfortable. There are many roles of ethical concern that every health educator should address and make sure that the people they are teaching learn the correct information and up to date. Health educators should deliver accurate information without prejudice. Health educators should inform participants that total confidentiality will be adhered to their medical information will be not...
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...Student Name Ian G. Student ID Lecturer Submission Date University What is the effect of cultural and social-economic differences on access to health care education? Access to health care education is a must for everyone. This is more important when cultural and social-economic differences are minimal. However, this is a difficult thing to achieve in entirety. Health care education is such a big issue that it can only look forward to assistance from the cultural and social-economic quarters. This is a disparity that the facilitation does not seem to come in an easy way mostly due to the attitudes of the people related with imparting the health care education. The effect of these differences mean that the people suffer whilst receiving health care education which in turn implicates for lack of proper and sound health care understanding within the society (Mangles, 1993). The role of the health care personnel is to make sure that the people do not suffer and they are given adequate levels of health care assistance in the form of such educational domains. These people have to decide what can be deemed as acceptable and where the line needs to be drawn as far as the unacceptable realms are related. When culturally distinctive individuals are given health care education, there are certain ambiguities in the wake of understanding how people are segregated on the basis of their locality, region to where they belong and so on (Horder...
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...Training and educating the employees of the health care industry is vital to the success of every health care organization. The health care industry is always changing with the creation of new medications, new surgical treatments, and various other methods of treatment. It is vital to health care organizations that they have trained and educated employees properly to ensure that their patient’s well-being and quality of life come first. The advancement of technology has also played a vital role in the training and education of health care industry employees. Training and education is vital to the success of any organization, but when human lives are involved a bigger influence is weighted on the organization to ensure that their employees are fully trained and educated. There are many types of health care jobs out there and most of them require some sort of college education. It is imperative that the employees of any health care organization are properly trained and educated to fulfill the job requirements. Health care employees are working with patients where the smallest mistakes can have very dangerous consequences. Every action that the employee does must be done in the correct fashion to protect both the patient and the health care organization. There are state and federal standards that must be upheld by each health care organization and each employee must be properly trained and education on these standards. Billing departments, human resources departments, and various...
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...and Development Paper Education in health care can be vital to individuals’ seeking success in the health care industry. Today, most employers’ are requiring education for employment. Some positions such as; administrative assistant jobs, scheduling coordinators, and small management positions once did not require a level of education, now requires you to have a certain level of education and does not matter about experience. The more education an individual receives are the better chances of opportunity’s’ that will be available and a chance to get in the door with priority. Education requirements’ are essential to employers’ because this helps to narrow down who is qualified and who is not qualified for the open positions. Education is even more vital to the health care industry and everyone why: * Key components of healthcare roles math, technology, and science * Healthcare roles, certifications, and degrees are required for licensure to practice in certain capacity. * Huge responsibilities on health professionals for, the survival of individuals’, well-being, and health. Healthcare training is very critical to everyone in the healthcare industry. Providing good quality training program for health care providers can reassure a safe environment, proper and accurate documentation, quality healthcare to individuals, prevention of spreading germs. Some other reasons that training is vital to health care, training can help employees in health care to develop more knowledge...
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...Training and development Alisa Jordan HCS/341 February 13, 2012 Mark Wallace Training and development Training and education in the heath care field is very critical to have. Ongoing training and education has a heath care professional has the ability to communicate with clients to qualify the care and successfully qualify the care and successfully give treatment. The author will discuss why training and education are vital in health care, the importance of measuring competencies, and describe the process for tracking and evaluating training and effectiveness. Training and education in the health care field ids very vital to have. The health care field consists of mainly hands on jobs that deal with patients and clients, and to maintain the professionalism at all times. Training is for getting the person prepare for real life situation in the health care field and the education is to have the knowledge for the health care so that the person knows the procedures and how to approach them. Training and education is vital in the health care world because it is dealing with people lives and other important aspects. For instance, if a person has been filling paper medical records and now the upper management wants the person to start using the computer to input the medical record electronically. Know that person would have to get training and education on how to successfully use that method to maintain the medical record in the computer. The importance of measuring competencies...
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...Chapter One: What Is Health Psychology? Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. •Definition of health psychology •The mind-body relationship: a brief history •The rise of the biopsychosocial method •The need for health psychology •Health psychology research •What is health psychology training for? Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 2 •Studies psychological influences on people • How they stay healthy • Why they become ill • How they respond when they get ill •Health: Complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being • Wellness: Optimum state of health Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 3 •Health promotion and maintenance •Prevention and treatment of illness •Etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction • Etiology: Origins or causes of illness •Improvement of health care system and the formulation of health policy Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 4 •Disease during prehistory - Considered to arise when evil spirits entered the body •Humoral...
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...different approaches to health education, explaining two models of behaviour change that have been used in recent health education campaigns, and assessing how the social context may influence the ability of health education campaigns to change behaviour in relation to health. Health promotion involves doing things to prevent disease and to improve individual and community’s health. Health promotion offers solutions to many of the health problems facing society such as obesity, lack of exercise and smoking though developing skills and knowledge, community action, supportive environments, healthy public policy and health services. Health promotion helps individuals or communities to increase control over and improve their health and wellbeing. The features of health promotion are that it is based on a holistic view of health; it uses participatory approaches it focuses on the determinants and addressing of health not just health problems and conditions. These include the social, behavioural, environmental and economic conditions that are the root cause of poor health, wellbeing and illness such as education, income, employment, working conditions, social status. Health promotion builds on existing strengths and assets and it uses multiple, complementary approaches to promote health for the individual, community and population as a whole. There are three main approaches to health education. The approaches have been used to as a way to improve the health of individual. The three...
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