Unit 7 Basic feeding and nutrition of infant and young child Flashcards
(20 cards)
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Define communication
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- A process whereby information is transmitted between people
- It can be on a one-on-one basis or in a group.
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Define health communication
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- The study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individuals and community decisions that affect health.
- It links the fields of communication and health and is increasingly recognized as a necessary element of efforts to improve personal and public health.
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Describe primary health education
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- Is concerned with positively improving the quality of health and quality of life
- Not merely preventing illnesses
- Is directed towards healthy people and aims to prevent ill health
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Describe Secondary health education
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- Is directed towards people who are ill and is concerned with educating them about their condition and how to deal with it
5
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Describe tertiary education
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- Is directed towards clients whose ill health has not been or could not be prevented and who cannot be completely cured
- Rehabilitation programmes on how to avoid unnecessary hardship, restrictions and complications contain a considerable of tertiary health education
6
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What is information?
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Refers to knowledge, facts or news
7
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What is training?
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Refers to an instruction in how to do a particular job, e.g., nurses undergoing training where they are trained/shown how to inject a patient
8
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What is teaching
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- When one person pass on his/her knowledge about something to another person, either giving lessons or instruction
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What is education?
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- The process or system of teaching in schools or other establishments such as the hospitals and health facilities
OR - It is the process of developing a person’s knowledge
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What does health education mean?
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- The entirety of science-based education and training measure which contribute to the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health
>by influencing individual and collective behaviour
>by establishing personal responsibilities for health
>by enabling people to participate activrly in the healthful management of their natural and social environment - Health Education is the process of transforming behavioural change through education and training
- It can be defined as the principle by which individuals and groups of people learn to behave in a manner conducive to promotion, maintenance, or restoration of health.
12
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How does the World Health Organisation define health?
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- 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 conductive to individual and community health
13
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Why is it important to give health education?
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- Helps people achieve health by their own actions and efforts
- To empower the clients with skills and knowledge on health issues
- Socialization for future health roles
- Enable others to keep themselves healthy and free of preventable diseases
- Diseases can be minimised if all of us preventing them from occurring
- Create self-care attitudes among communities
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What are principles of health education?
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Why is it important to give health education?
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- To promote health
- To maintain health
- To prevent illness
- To cope with illness
- To restitute lost aspects of health
16
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Where can you give health education?
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- Home, school, church, shops
- Community gatherings, meetings
17
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What are the components of a health education system?
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- Involvement and support of influential people
- Policy and philosophy
- Resources
- System design
- Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching
- Coordination
- Care giver involvement
- Clients’ involvement
- Channels of communication
- Ease of implementation
- Education phases
- Feedback and evaluation
18
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What are factors that promote effective health education and health communication?
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- Audience
- Time of health talks
- Language and choice of words
- Media to use as teaching aid
- Topic should be of interest to the audience
- Be sure and have self confidence
- Answer the question, and if you do not know, admit it and promise to come back with an answer, but come back.
19
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What is the purpose of assessment?
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- Identify the clients’ needs
- Personal data
- Clients’ beliefs and expectations
- Establish point of reference for learning
- Stress factor
- Prior knowledge and experiences
- Physical and mental abilities
- Cultural influences
- Language
- Economical readiness
- Emotional readiness
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