Adults Health Education
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an adult is a person older than 19 years of age unless national law delimits an earlier age, and an adolescent someone aged 10 to 19 years. Additional literature retrieval about this issue, including those listed by the authors, shows that TOF in adults is commonly defined as subjects older than 18 years of age. Therefore, efforts should be made to embrace international parameters in our clinical practice.
According to the National Conference of Preventive Medicine USA, Health education is a process that informs, motivates and helps people to adopt and maintain healthy practices and lifestyles, advocates environmental changes as needed to facilitate this goal and conducts professional training and research to the same end. Lawrence Green defined Health Education as a combination of learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary actions conducive to health.
Health education is a social science that draws from the biological, environmental psychological, physical and medical sciences to promote health and prevent disease, disability and premature death through education-driven voluntary behavior change activities. Health education is the process by which individuals and groups of people learn to promote, maintain, restore health. It is a process aimed at stimulating the wish to be healthy, to know how to stay healthy, to do what they can individually and collectively do to maintain health and to seek help when needed. Health education as applied to health and disease issues is a process with intellectual, psychological and social dimensions relating to activities that increase the abilities of people to make informed decisions affecting their personal, family and community well-being. This process, based on scientific principles, facilitates learning and behavioral change in both health personnel and consumers, including children and youth.
The purpose of health education is to positively influence the health behavior of individuals and communities, as well as the living and working conditions that influence their health. The focus of health education is on increasing functional health knowledge and identifying key skills that apply to all aspects of healthy living. These skills include identifying the influence of family, peers, culture, media and technology on health behavior; knowing how to access and use valid health information and using communication, decision-making, goal-setting and encouragement skills to engage in health-enhancing behaviors.
Importance of Health Education for adults:
1. Health education helps adults in personal development, well-being, increased self-confidence, etc.
2. Health education helps in health literacy. The capacity of people to understand how to deal with their health (indications of a doctor, instruction leaflets on medicines, information leaflets on illnesses, etc.) helps in better health of adults.
3. Health education helps adults to have a better understanding of the preventive measures and treatment for communicable and non-communicable diseases.
4. Health education helps in the promotion of healthy lifestyles. Courses on nutrition or cooking but also yoga and gym classes, etc. help the adults to have healthy concepts for having a healthy lifestyle.
5. Helps in promoting the proper use of health services available in adults.
6. By focusing on prevention, health education reduces the costs of adults (both financial and human) that individuals would spend on medical treatment.
Importance of Health Education for the young generation:
1. Helps in instilling behaviors into the young generation to prevent or delay the onset of the leading causes of death.
2. Helps in promoting the proper use of health services available in the young generation.
3. Health education builds students’ knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes about health. Health education teaches about physical, mental, emotional and social health. It motivates students to improve and maintain their health, prevent disease, and reduce risky behaviors.
4. Health education curricula and instruction help students learn skills they will use to make healthy choices throughout their lifetime. It provides logical reasons for avoiding alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
5. It helps to cite the young generation regarding the importance of injury prevention, having good physical and emotional health, proper intake of nutrition, physical activity, prevention of diseases and sexuality and family life.
6. Health education promotes learning in other subjects. In general, healthy students learn better. Numerous studies have shown that healthier students tend to do better in school. They have higher attendance, have better grades, and perform better on tests.
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