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Risk factors most associated with mortality
lack of physical activit, poor nutrition, tobacco and alcohol use.
Beginning of Public Health Programs
1974 Canada published a policy statement: A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians. In the US the Health Information and Health Promotion Act was passed . . . leading to Healthy People - the Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and Diseae pRevention.
Health Education Definition
Any combination of planned learning experiences using evidence-baed practices and/or sound theories that provide the opportunity to acquire knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to adopt and maintain healthy behavior.
Health Promotion Definition
Any planned combination of educational, political, environmental, regulatory, or organizational mechanisms tha tsupport actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups and communities”. Also “any planned combination of educational, political, regulatory and organizational supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups, and communities”. Also “each person has a certain degree of health that may be expressed as a place in a spectrum. From that perspective, promoting health must focus on enhancing people’s capacities for living.. That means moving them toward the health end of the spectrum, just as prevention is aimedat avoiding disease that can move people toward the opposite end of the spectrum.”Health education is an important component of health promotion
Health Educator
a professionally prepared individual who serves in a variety of roles and is specifically trained to use appropriate educational strategies and methods to facilitate the development of policies, procedures, interventions, and systems conducive to the health of individuals, groups and communities.
Health Education Specialist
An individual who has met, at a minimum, baccalaureatelevel required health education academic preparation qualifications, who serves in a variety of settings, and is able to use appropriate educationl strategies and methods to facilitate the development of policies, procedures, interventions, an systems conducive to the health of individuals, groups and communities.
Role Delineation Project
1979 - this project yielded a generic role for the entry -level health educator - this then helped to establish the curricula - aka the seven competencies were a “Framework” for the development of competency based curricula for entry level health educators. Later, July 1997, 3 additional responsibilities were added for advanced-level health educator, including research, administration, and advancement of the profession. Te Framework was used to develop CHES.
CUP model
The National Health Educator Competencies Update Project 1998, to update the competencies. Developed a 3 tiered system - entry, advanced level 1, advanced level 2.
7 areas of responsibility
Four are related to program planning, implementation and evaluation. The other three could be associated with those processes . . .
bates and Winder (1984) assumtpions of health education
- Health status can be changed. 2. health and disease are determined by dynamic interactions among biological, psychological, behavioral, and social factors. 3. Disease occurrence theories and principles can be understood. 4. Appropriate prevention strategies can be developed to deal with the identified health problems. 5. Behavior can be changed and those changes can influence health. 6. Individual behavior, family interactions, community and workplace relationships and resources, and public policy all contribute to health and influence behavior change. 7. Initiating and maintainig a behavior change is difficult 8. Individual responsibility should not be viewed as victim blaming, yet the importance of health behavior to health status must be understood. 9. For health behavior change to be permanet, an individual must be motivated and ready to change.
Why is systemic planning important (Hunnicutt, 2007a)?
- Detailed plans can help to avoid future problems. 2. planning helps make a program transparent - good planning keeps the program stake holders informed. The planning process should not be mysterious or secretive. 4. Planning is empowering. Oncedecision makers give approval to the resulting comprehensive program plan, planners and facilitators are empowered to implenet the program. 4. Planning creates alignment - organization members will understand the “fit” to the organization.
Generalized Model for Health Promotion Proram
- Assessing Needs. 2. Setting goals and objectives 3. Developing an intervention 4. implementing the intervention 5. evaluating hte results
Priority population
those for whom the program is intended to serve
Key questions for the pre-planning process
- Purpose of the program (how is community defined, desired health outcomes, capacity and infrastrucutre, is policy change needed). 2. Scope of the planning process (intra or inter-organizational, time frame). 3. Planning process outcomes (deliverables, written plan, program proposal, program documentation or justification). 4. Leadership and structure (what authority will planners have, how will you organize, etc.) 5. Identifying and engaging partners - how will the partners be selected, will the planning process use a top-down or bottom-up approach? 6. Identifying and securing resources (how will the budget be determined, will a written agreement outlining resonsibilities be needed, will external funding be needed, are there community resources already in place?
Code of Ethiccs for Health Education Profession Article 1
Article 1 Responsibility to Public - educate, promote,maintain, and improve the health of individuals, families,a nd groups. When a conflict arises, ehealth educators consider all issues and give priority to thsoe that promote the health and well-bein of individuals and the public while respecting individal autonomy. Section 1. Health educators support the right of individuals to make informed decisions regarding their health, as long as such decisions pose no risk to the health of others. Section 2: health educators encourage actions and social policies that promote maximizing health benefits and eliminating or minimizing preventable risks and disparities for all affected parties. Section 3. Helath educators ccurately communicate the potential risks, benefits, or consequences of the services and programs they provide. Section 4. Health educators accept responsibility to act on issues that can affect the health of individuals, families, groups,a nd communities. Section 5. Health educators are truthful about their qualifications and the limitations of their education expertise and expeirence. Section 6; Health educators are ethically bound to respect, assure and protect the privacy, confidentiality, and dignity of individuals. Section 7: HE’s actively involve individuals, groups, and communities in the entire educational process to maximize the understanding and personal responsibilities of those affected. Section 8; HE’s respect and acknolwedge the rights of others to hold diverse values, attitudes, and opinions.
Code of Ethics Article 2
Health educators are repsonsible for their professional behavior, for the reputation of their profession,a nd for mpromoting ethical conduct among colleagues. Section 1: HE’s maintain, improve, and expand their professional competence through continued study and education; membership, participation and leadership in professional organizations, and involvement in issues related to the health of the public. 2. HE’s model and encourage non-discriminatory standards of behavior in their interactions with others. 3. He’s encourage and accept responsible critical discourse to protect an denhance ht eprocession. 4. He’s contribute to the profession by refining existing an ddeveloping new practices, and by sharing the oucomes of their work. Section 5. He’s are aware of real and perceived professional conflicts of interest, and promote transparency of conflincts. Section 6. He’s give appropriate recognition to others for their professional contributions and achievements. Section 7: He’s openly communicate to colleagues, employers, and professional organizations when they suspect unethical practice that violates the professions’ code of ethics.
Code of ethics article 3
health educators recognize the boundaries of their professional competence and are accountable for their professional activities and action.s 1. HE’s accurately represent their qualifications and the qualifications of others whom they recommend. 2. HE’s use and apply current evidence-based standards, theories, and guidelines as criteria when carrying out their professional responsibilities. 3. Hes accurately represent potential and actual service and program outcomes to employers. 4. He’s anticipate adn disclose competing committments, conflicts of interest, and endorsement of produts. 5. HE’s acknowledge and openly communicate to employers, expectations of job-related asignments that conflict with their professional ethics. 6. He’s maintain competence in their areas of professional practice. 7. He’s exercise fiduciary repsonsibility and transparency in allocating resources associated with work
Code of ethics article IV
HE’s deliver health education with integrity; they respect he rights, dignity, confidentliaty an dworth of all people by adapting strategies and methods to the needs of diverse populations and communities. Article 1; HE’s are sensitive to social and cultural diversity and are in accord with the law, when planning and implementing programs. 2. He’s remain informed of the latest advances in health education thoery, research an dpractices. 3. He’s use strategies an dmethods that are grounded in and contribute to the development of professional standards, theories, guidelines, data na dexperience. 4. He’s are committed to rigorous evaluation of both program effectiveness and hte methods use to achieve results. 5. He’s promote the adoption of healthy lifestyles through informed choice rather than by coercion or intimidation. 6He’s communicatethe potential otucomes of proposed services, strategies, and pending decisions to all individuals who will be affected. 7. He’s actively collaborate and communicate with professionals of various educational backgrounds and acknowledge and respect hte sklills and contributions of such groups.
Code of Ethics Article V
HE’s contribute to the health or the population and proffession through research and evaluation activities. When planning and conducting research or evaluation, He’s do so in a accordance with federal and state laws, etc. 1. He’s adhere to princniples and practices of research and evaluation that do no harm to individuals, groups, society or the environemnt. 2. He’s ensure that participation in research is voluntary and is based upon informed consent of participants. 3. he’s respect and protect hte privacy, rights and dignity of research participants, and honor commitments made to those participants 4. He’s treat all information obtained from participants as confidential unless otherwise required by law. Full disclosre needed. 5. He’s take credit, including authorship, only for work they have actually performed and give appropriate credit to the contributions of others.6He’s who serve as research or evaluation consultants maintain confideltiality of results unless permission is granted or in order to protect health and safety of others. 7. He’s report the resuls of their research and evaluation objectively, accurately, and in a timely fashion. 8 He’s openly share conflicts of interest in the research, evaluation, and disseemination proces.
Code of ethics article VI: responsibility in profesoinal preparation
Those involved in teh preparation and training of He’s have an obligation to accord learners the same repsect and treatment given other groups by providing quality education thta benefits the profession and the public. 1. He’s select students rof professional preparation programs based on equal opportunity 2. He’s strive to maket he educational environment and culture conducive to the health of all involved, and free from forms of discrimination and harassment. 3. He’s involved in professional preparation and development engage in careful planning, present material that is accurate; developmentally an d culturally appropriate; provide reasonable and prompt feedback, state clear and reasonable expectations, and conduct fair assesment and prompt evaluationso f learnres. 4. He’s provide objective, comprehensive and accurate counseling to learners about career opportunitiees, development, advancement and assit learners in securing professional employemt or furhter education opportunities. 5. He’s provide adequate supervision and meaningful opportunities for the professional development of learners.
Responsibilities and competencies for health education specialists
- Asses needs, assets, capacity for health education (competency 1.2 access existing information and data related to health, competency 1.6 examine factors that enhance or compromise the process of health education). Responsibility 2. Plan health education (competency 2.1 involve priority populations and other stake holders in the planning process. Responsibility V: administer and manage health education. Competency 5.2 obtain acceptance and support for programs, competency 5.3 demonstrate leadership, competency 5.5 facilitate partnerships in support of health education. Responsibility VI: serve as a health education resource person. (competency 6.1 obtain and disseminate health-related information). Responsibility VII communicate and advocate for health and health education. (competency 7.4) engage in health education advocacy.
Leading by Example LBE
A validated instrument to assess leadership support for health promotion programs in work settings. Four factor scale: 1. business assignment with health promotion objectives 2 awareness of the economics of health and worker productivity 3 worksite support for health promotion 4 leadership support for health promotion (della et al 2010).
Literature
The articles, books, government publications and other documetns that explain the past and current knowledge about a particular topic.
Rationale (for a program)
- express the needs and wants of the priority population 2 describe the status of the health problems within a given population 3 shows how the potential outcomes of the proposed program align wtih what the decision makers feel is important 4 show compatibility with teh health plan of a state or a nation 5 provide evidence that hte proposed program will make a difference and 6 show how the proposed program will protect and preserve the single biggest asset of most organizations the people.