Foundations of Health Education

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Foundations of Health Education
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Key Concepts / Review

• What is Health?
• Gold Standard Definition
• A dynamic state of complete physical, mental,
  spiritual and social well-being and not merely
  the absence of disease or infirmity.
• (WHO)
• a dynamic state or condition of a human organism
  that is multidimensional in nature, a resource
  for living, and results from a persons
  interactions with and adaptations to his or her
  environments
• (McKenzie, Pinger Kotecki, 2008, p. 6)

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Where does all of this stem from?

• What does the current health care system focus
  on?
• Communicable diseases
• Noncommunicable diseases
• Most causes of death stem from modifiable
  behaviors.
• Multicausation Disease Model
• Focuses on noncommunicable diseases
• Genetics
• Behavior
• Environment
• Social Circumstances
• Access to Care

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Current Status of Health Education/Promotion

• 21st Century Behavioral patterns are the
  single most prominent domain of influence over
  health prospects in the United States (McGinnis
  et al., 2002, p. 82)

Figure 1.3 Infectious and chronic disease death
rates in the U.S, 1900-2000.
(Pearson Ed, 2012)
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OECD Health Data
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Source CIA World Factbook, 2011
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Relationship Between Health Education Health
Promotion
(Pearson Ed, 2012)
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In Other Words .

• Health Education is about prevention.

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Why is prevention important?

• Many of the health problems the nation will deal
  with in the balance of this century and into the
  next are fully preventable.
• (Minelli and Breckon, 2009, pg. 21)
• Cessation of tobacco use, moderate use of
  alcohol, daily exercise, and good nutrition can
  prevent literally millions of deaths and negate
  the need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars
  on health care.
• (Minelli and beckon, 2009, pg 21)

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Levels of Prevention

• Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
• Limits of prevention
• Biological
• Technological
• Ethical Concern
• Economic

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Basic Underlying Concepts of the Profession

• Figure 1.6 Levels of Prevention

(Pearson Ed, 2012)
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Past Success Stories

• Decrease in heart disease
• Decrease in stroke mortalities
• Decrease in accidental injuries and motor vehicle
  deaths
• Decreased infant mortality (although still needs
  work)
• Decrease in cervical cancer
• Decrease in lung cancer .

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Good News

• There is a demand for health education now.
• Consumerism
• Inflation
• Increase in chronic diseases

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Key Players

• Secretary of Health Human Services
• ___________________
• Our Goal for all Americans to live healthier,
  more prosperous, and more productive lives.

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• U.S. Surgeon General
• ______________________
• Public health is a beautiful mission. There is
  no nobility to it because ultimately it isnt
  about one person or one family, it is a bigger
  thing.