Despite having the advancements made in medical science, the aspiration to maintain a healthy generation is not fulfilled yet. This indicates the importance of health promotion in community. Health promotion can be done through proper education of public about the major diseases, its prevention and management and also the importance of healthy life style. Health promotion gives emphasis on the actual definition of health, that is not only just lack of disease, but also physical, mental and social
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first thing that comes to my mind is good health and proper education. From my point of view, the proper education is defined as a good combination of primary and second education. The girls’ secondary education is a quite problematic topic, especially when they finish primary school and are on the threshold of starting their secondary education or suffering from life full of bad surprises. The reason why secondary education of girls is of crucial importance is associated with its
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Promotion Literature Review Health promotion is a well-known term in nursing, with authors arguing that health promotion is central to the philosophy of nursing (Irvine, 2007). After studying three selected articles regarding the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of health promotion, a similar theme referring to the role of the nurse to develop a more holistic understanding of health promotion in all stages of life and refreshing the concept of health promotion in order to advocate
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interventions”. Knowledge is power. An uninformed public are susceptible to preventable diseases. The average citizen in their quest to sustain live on daily bases has little time or ability to research on health issues. This is why health promotion by health practitioners, government and non-government agencies and organizations alike must find a way to promote health for the benefit of the general public. The objective should be to promote health at primary, secondary and tertiary levels to enable us help
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to reach the secondary (recommended) or tertiary (expert treatment) levels where the care cost of service becomes more and more high. The first level embodies primary health care, or first contact care, at which patients have their first contact with the health-care system (www.britanica.com). Primary health care is an essential part of a nation’s health preservation system, of which it forms the major and the most important part. As illustrated in the declaration of Alma-Ata, primary health care
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There were three fundamentally distinct education systems in Nigeria in 1990: the indigenous system, Quranic schools, and formal European-style education institutions. In the rural areas where the majority lived, children learned the skills of farming and other work, as well as the duties of adulthood, from participation in the community. This process was often supplemented by age-based schools in which groups of young boys were instructed in community responsibilities by mature men. Apprentice systems
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increasing healthcare expenses. Thus, health promotion is the only way to reduce health incidence (occurrence of new cases) of definite diseases such as obesity, autism, heart disease, diabetes, lung cancer and many more. Some are focused efforts of public health professionals and agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) office of Disease Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Cancer Society, (Prevention of Disease (2011, ¶ 1 to 3). The effectiveness
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LITERATURE Health Promotion. Public health concepts and public health nursing was formed in the mid 18th century in response to communicable diseases, claiming the lives of people in large numbers. Over the years, the leading cause of death has shifted and transitioned from infectious deceases to chronic diseases. In today’s modern world advancement in health care and technology call for quality of life and achievement of optimum health for all people. The face and scope of public health transformed to
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GOVERNMENT OF GHANA EDUCATION STRATEGIC PLAN 2003 to 2015 VOLUME 1 POLICIES, TARGETS AND STRATEGIES Ministry of Education May 2003 Education Strategic Plan, Volume 1 EDUCATION STRATEGIC PLAN 2003 - 2015 Volume 1: Policy, Targets and Strategies Contents page List of Abbreviations used in ESP Foreword by Honourable Minister of Education Chapter 1 4 2 The Education Strategic Plan- Background and Policy Basis 5 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 The Education Sector - an Overview
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Running header: DIGITAL BLENDED CLASSROOM LEARNING Lloyd Wayne Murphy Digital Blended Classroom Learning the New Dawn of Learning for All Strayer University Professor Randi Fass SUMMER 2011 EDU500 August 7, 2011 The intended purpose of this thesis is to illustrate how the ensuing commencement of a new dawn of student instruction, the digital-blended-classroom-learning (DBCL) discipline is upon the academic world. The advent of the innovative blending of computers within
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