Transcript INFORMATION, EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION FOR …

(IEC)
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It is an action taken by a person to
maintain, attain, or regain good health and
to prevent illness. Health behavior reflects a
person's health beliefs. Some common health
behaviors are exercising regularly, eating a
balanced diet, and obtaining necessary
inoculations.
Health education It can be defined as the
principle by which individuals and groups of
people learn to behave in a manner conducive to
the promotion, maintenance, or restoration
of health. there are also multiple definitions of
health education.
 The World Health Organization defined Health
Education as "comprising of consciously
constructed opportunities for learning involving
some form of communication designed to
improve health literacy, including improving
knowledge, and developing life skills which are
conducive to individual and community health.“
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 Diagnosis
or assessment of health needs,
problems, attitudes, and communities at risk
of illness.
 Designing a suitable health education
program with community involvement
 Planning for appropriate setting
 Use of appropriate teaching aids/ methods
 General
socio economic situation
 Patterns of illness
 Target group in the population
 Health needs
 Attitudes, customs, feelings and ideas that
can be changed by education
 Identification of communicators
 The
message of the program must be clear,
understandable and acceptable
 Home
 Clinics
or health centres
 Hospitals
 Community meeting places
 Anganwadi and schools
 Understand
the group
 More resourcefulness
 Effective and penetrating
 Health
education can be carried out
through:
1. Working with individual persons, couples
and families
2. Working with small groups of community
members
3. Mass approach
 Personal
contact or face to face discussion
 Helps to correct misconceptions
 Helps to understand attitudes and ideas of
individual
 The nurse should follow the following steps:
 Study
the house hold record
 Make a note of what is to be discussed
 Check on facts to be given on a referred
service available
 Fix the date and time of interview to suite
the convenience of the individual or family
 Introduce
herself and greet the person
according to local custom
 Build up rapport with individual
 Judge the length of nurse’s stay according to
the convenience of the family
 Lead
the people to do the things and listen
to the other person’s point of view
 Do not take decisions for the individual but
help him to arrive at the right decision on his
own
 Be sensitive to the feelings, moods and the
reactions of the individual
 Refrain from moralizing
 Try to help the individual face and solve his/
her problems
 Avoid arguments and be flexible
 Command
any action taken on suggestions
made
 Find out what difficulties have come in the
way of carrying out the suggested measures
 Provide adiitional information as required