Arab Health Congress

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Arab Health Congress

• March 24-27 / 2008
• Dubai
• U.A.E

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Role of Health Education In Children Well being

• Presented by
• Mr. Ahmad Said AL Hamed
• Deputy Director of Nursing
• School Health Dubai
• M.O.H

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Our Precious Children

• There is no greater joy than the joy of seeing a
  child grow in mind ,spirit and body .
• Our children are our greatest joy and treasure
  ,we need them all.
• The most important business and the most
  worthwhile business is the business of raising
  babies.
• Dr. Brook
  Chisblon
• Previous
  G.D.WHO

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History of Health Education

• - There is evidence that in ancient times people
  were told how to avoid disease , as part of the
  religious teaching.
• - Later this has become a part of the
  regulations, habits, and traditions.

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In Recent Days

• - Educating people in health has become more
  necessary as a result of the rapid advances in
  knowledge ,technology, and the continued
  discovery of better ways of preventing disease.
• A lot of efforts has to be done to modify our
  life style.

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Health care of the children includes care of

• - Feeding (to avoid ,anemia, mal nutrition,
  obesity).
• - Immunization
• - Prevention of disease
• - Normal physical and mental development.
• - Education
• - Advice
• - Guidance.

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Importance of Health Education

• - Nowadays H.E. is an important activity in
  public health and school health .
• -It is an effective and necessary tool in the
  prevention of diseases and the promotion of
  health.

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Effect of Health Education

• - Health education is the sum of experiences and
  methods used to add to peoples knowledge , to
  improve their health habits , and to develop in
  them more healthy and scientific attitudes.
• - Getting rid of un healthy habits, or modify
• to the best if possible.
• - Practical demonstration is very important
• to school children to convince them to get
  accustom to it .

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Purpose of Health education

• - Is to inform the public of the principles of
  physical and mental hygiene , and the ways of
  preventing disease, so as to create an informed
  public opinion.
• - To bring to the people the scientific knowledge
  regarding their health , by so doing make it
  easier for them to accept the public health
  programs designed for their benefit.
• To promote healthy eating behaviors, physical
  activities and healthy life style among children.

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Who delivers the health education.?

• - A great deal of health education is carried
  out by doctors, school health nurses, health
  educators, general nurses , midwives, health
  visitors ,and the other health workers as part of
  their daily practice.

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Individual Health Education.

• This individual health education is very
  effective and long lasting.
• - Through personal interview.
• - It has more concentration , specific to the
  target.
• - you can assess the individual knowledge and
  stress on the actual H.E. needs of the client.

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Mass Health Education.

• Mass health education should be
• simple,
• - Clear
• - Easy to grasp.
• - For the same age group.
• - use their own language ,accent, ( not
  sophisticated). If possible.
• - Respect their religion, traditions.
• - Give acceptable and realistic examples.

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Methods to be used

• Diagrams are useful .
• Films are effective ( particularly the
  documentary and technical films.
• New audio visual resources.
• Lectures --Accuracy and truth are
  important
• Role play -- with specific target
• Drawing -- for young kids
  illustrations.
• Leaflets -- for great no. of people.
• Magazines
• Posters
• Verbal counseling
• Workshops

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Continued Methods of health education

• Morning assembly health speech.
• Local and international health opportunity
  celebrations.
• Exhibitions .
• Home visits ,or Facility visits.
• Researches related to health problems.
• Health Competitions among students.
• Encourage sports sessions in schools.
• School nutrition supervision .

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Role of school health in H.E.

• - School Health department co-ordinates with
  ministry of education about the desired topics to
  be covered per academic year .
• - We put the annual plan of health education to
  be implemented in each school suiting the age
  group and their needs
• - Health educators , nurses , school health
  doctors , plus expertise of different specialists
  Perform the health education sessions.
• -Health education in schools is the ideal method
  ,which has greater and more lasting effects.
• - School health usually covers all educational
  subjects .
• - The school represents a most important learning
  situation for a large and significant group of
  the population.

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• Supporting health promoting schools.
• Implementing the school health programs through
• Early detection of diseases ( General medical
  check up).
• Follow up for positive cases .
• Vaccinations according to M.O.H program.
• Oral health and mouth care .(Through preventive
  activities,, curative intervention ).
• Offering first aid activities to students inside
  the school, beside giving first aid courses to
  students , teachers.
• Health education activities offered to the
  students parents.
• Maintain safe school environment .
• Observe school canteen ,quality of food , food
  handlers.
• Observe vision equity to all students do the
  necessary things.
• Observe the anemia ,Obesity ,Mal nutrition cases
  and do the proper intervention.
• Sharing in doing many researches related to
  health problems , make use of the results to put
  the future plans .

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As a conclusionBenefits of Health Education.

• What is learnt by the child tends
  To have a deep and lasting influence on
  his happiness, on his opinions, and on his
  behavior, through out his life .
• - School life is filled with opportunities for
  health teaching all through the day .- Children
  are exposed to many situations which may
  influence the life of the child.
• -It improves children life style.
• - It modifies his un healthy habits.
• - It has a good preventive role in individual
  life .
• - It strengthen the good and healthy habits in
  the individual's life .
• - Cost effective approach ,in comparison to the
  hospitalization.

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Finally

• Thank you for your attention