Scope of Health Education
Scope of Health Education - Within the scope of health education can be seen from the various dimensions, such as dimensions of the training purposes, dimensions of implementation or application, and the dimensions of the level of health care.
Targeted health education by the target size, health education can be grouped into three, namely:
- Individual health education with individual goals.
- Group health education with the target group.
- Public health education to the community
- Implementation of Health Education Place
According to the dimensions of performance, education can take place in different locations. With a very different purpose, such as:
- School health education conducted in schools
- Health education in hospitals performed in hospitals for patient or family.
- Health education in places keija with targeted workers or the employees, and so on.
- Levels of health education services
Dimensions level of health services, health education can be made based on five levels of prevention (five levels of prevention) of leavel and Clark as follows:
Health Promotion (Health Promotion). At this level of health education is needed as to improve eating habits, ¬ ling support Improved sanitation, personal hygiene, and so on.
Special protection (specifik Protection)
In the immunization program as a form of special protection education health service is necessary, particularly in developing countries. This is because part of the public of the importance of the immunization by means of protection against disease in adults and in children is low. - Early diagnosis and
Immediate treatment (early diagnosis and prompt treatment)
Due to lack of knowledge and awareness of health and disease, it is often difficult to detect diseases that occur in society. Sometimes it is difficult or not, people want to be considered and treated disease. This will result in humans if not obtain proper healthcare. Therefore, health education is needed at this stage.
Restrictions Disabilities (Disability Limitation)
Due to the lack of understanding and awareness of health and disease, which often leads to people not continue treatment to completion. In other words, they do not do a complete examination and treatment of the disease. The treatment is not possible and could lead to an improvement of the person become disabled or is unable to do anything. Therefore, health education is needed at this stage. -
Rehabilitation (rehabilitation)
After recovering from a particular disease, sometimes people become disabled. For reconstruction of defects sometimes requires some exercise. Due to the lack of understanding and awareness of the people, he did not hesitate to undertake or exercise recommended. In addition, people with disabilities, after recovering from an illness, sometimes embarrassed to go back to the community. Often there and the public to accept them as a normal member of society. Therefore, health education clearly necessary not only for the disabled but also have health education for the community.
Health Promotion (Health Promotion). At this level of health education is needed as to improve eating habits, ¬ ling support Improved sanitation, personal hygiene, and so on.
Special protection (specifik Protection)
In the immunization program as a form of special protection education health service is necessary, particularly in developing countries. This is because part of the public of the importance of the immunization by means of protection against disease in adults and in children is low. - Early diagnosis and
Immediate treatment (early diagnosis and prompt treatment)
Due to lack of knowledge and awareness of health and disease, it is often difficult to detect diseases that occur in society. Sometimes it is difficult or not, people want to be considered and treated disease. This will result in humans if not obtain proper healthcare. Therefore, health education is needed at this stage.
Restrictions Disabilities (Disability Limitation)
Due to the lack of understanding and awareness of health and disease, which often leads to people not continue treatment to completion. In other words, they do not do a complete examination and treatment of the disease. The treatment is not possible and could lead to an improvement of the person become disabled or is unable to do anything. Therefore, health education is needed at this stage. -
Rehabilitation (rehabilitation)
After recovering from a particular disease, sometimes people become disabled. For reconstruction of defects sometimes requires some exercise. Due to the lack of understanding and awareness of the people, he did not hesitate to undertake or exercise recommended. In addition, people with disabilities, after recovering from an illness, sometimes embarrassed to go back to the community. Often there and the public to accept them as a normal member of society. Therefore, health education clearly necessary not only for the disabled but also have health education for the community.