Perspective: A New Ethic for Health Promotion: Reflections on a Philosophy of Health Education for the 21st Century

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Health Habits ◽  
Value Judgments ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Effective Interventions

This article describes two models for thinking about the purposes of health education—a medical model and an educationmodel—andtraces how concerns about the validity of research have driven preferencefor the medical model. In the medical model, the purpose of health education is to develop effective interventions that will prevent people from adopting unhealthy behaviors. Here, health educators are expected to replicate the methods identified by researchers to effect targeted changes in health behavior. The article then describes an alternative way of thinking about the purposes of health education. In pursuing a philosophy of education, the purpose of research and practice would be to clarify basic social values and to strengthen one's faculty for making value judgments. Practitioners here use research results as a stimulus for dialogue about the role of good health habits in living the kind of life that community members find most valuable.

Planning for Program Diffusion

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Denard Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Diffusion Process ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Education Literature ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Successful Program ◽  
Workplace Policies ◽  
Model Programs ◽  
Program Replication

Many programs shown effective in single trials are never adopted or successfully implemented in other sites. While the health education literature does include descriptions of efforts to diffuse research, programs, curricula, and workplace policies and examples of instruments for measuring aspects of the diffusion process, it does not include an overview of program diffusion principles and practices. The purpose of this article is to provide program planners with research and practice based insights into the program diffusion process. After identifying and defining key program diffusion terms, discussing diffusion’s theoretical bases, and arguing for more pro-active program replication among health educators, the author discusses program diffusion options (dissemination and/or replication), presents existing criteria for identifying model programs, puts forward typical reasons why program replication fails, and suggests specific strategies for increasing the likelihood of successful program replication. The paper ends with a call to plan programs with replication in mind

scholarly journals The implications of culture shock for health educators: Reflections with Barer-Stein

Curationis ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Arthur
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Health Educator ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Culture shock is an intensely personal universal human experience that may emerge in any cross cultural social encounter. Therefore, it may be deduced that culture shock is an experience that may occur in all spheres of life in which individuals are confronted by world views and life styles that differ from their own whether in terms of health, education or occupation amongst others. It is a situation that calls for adaptation or adjustment on the part of the individual. TTtis article explores the relationship between culture shock and culture adaptation as an aspect of learning which has been developed by Thelma Barer-Stein. Stress is laid on the role of the individual, as health educator, and the choices must make if he/she is to gain an understanding of the community in which he/she serves and to attribute new meanings to the situation by which he/she is confronted

Typical Activities of Health Educators in Public and Private Settings in California

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Alvin E. Winder
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Community Health Education ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Major Activity ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
Occupational Settings

Some typical activities of health educators employed in public and private settings in California are reported. These reports are based upon interviews with a number of directors of health education programs and the chairpersons of two university programs. Typical activities include the generalist role of rural health educators, the emphasis of urban health educators on health promotion programs, patient education as a major activity of health educators in medical care settings, and the continued commitment of health educators in occupational settings to community health education. The diversity of activities in which health educators in California are engaged suggests the outlook for the eighties is for many arenas for the practice of health education.

scholarly journals Health promotion and healthy eating habits. Exploratory study in primary education

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 01032
Author(s):  
Encarnación Pedrero-García ◽  
Olga Moreno-Fernández ◽  
Pilar Moreno-Crespo ◽  
Carmen Solís-Espallargas
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Healthy Habits ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits

This paper focuses on the importance of health education in Primary Education and the role of schools in the acquisition of healthy habits, especially in nutrition. The aim of this study is to provide an approximation of what students in the 6th year of Primary Education (11-12 years old) understand by healthy habits related to nutrition. A questionnaire of six openended questions was carried out, with a total sample of 78 children. It should be noted that a large sample confuses healthy eating with good health. We therefore consider the need to favour greater health education in school classrooms, as this would help them to differentiate balanced diets from those that are not and, therefore, to prepare healthy menus appropriately.

Collaboration: An Alternative Value and its Implications for Health Education

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvin Winder ◽  
Nellie B. Kanno
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
A Value ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Definition Of Health ◽  
Definition Of

It is the purpose of this paper to define health as a value, to give the value a specific content and meaning and to discuss the implications of the definition of health for the field of health education. The goal of good health cannot be achieved in societies that live by either the value of competition or collectivism. An alternative value, collaboration, can lead to healthful behavior. Collaboration is defined as involving consciousness, choice, commitment and caring. Health educators who are committed to this value tend to share a social ecological perspective. This perspective requires that they help people challenge health damaging conditions and provide opportunities for them to work toward health promoting activities.

scholarly journals Health education: a strategy of care for the lay caregiver

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luccas Melo de Souza ◽  
Wiliam Wegner ◽  
Maria Isabel Pinto Coelho Gorini
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Health Educators

This article aimed to reflect about the importance of the role nurses perform in strategies of health education to lay caregivers, who are important actors in the health/disease process. It is a thematic reflection, built through bibliographic review, which discusses the role of lay caregivers in different stages of the life cycle. Considering the participation of lay caregivers in the Brazilian reality, strategies have been sought to include them in the health care, given the little attention Public Policies have given to them. Therefore, the nurses as health educators, must offer support to the lay caregivers helping them to choose among available alternatives, while delivering care, to not harm their own health. Concluding, health education can be an alternative to offer attention to the lay caregivers, while the nurse has important role in the development of alternatives.

Looking Back and Moving Forward: SOPHE’s 70 Years of Contributions to Health Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 793-801
Author(s):  
Julia M. Alber ◽  
John P. Allegrante ◽  
M. Elaine Auld ◽  
Jean Breny
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Education ◽  
School Health ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Education Profession ◽  
Looking Back

Founded in 1950, the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) provides leadership to the health education profession and promotes the health of all people through six strategic commitments: developing and promoting standards for professional preparation and credentialing of community and school health educators; stimulating research on the theory, practice, and teaching of health education; supporting elimination of health disparities and the achievement of health equity; providing continuing education of the health education workforce; advocating for policy and legislation affecting public health and health promotion; and supporting a network of local chapters. This article describes how SOPHE has pursued these strategic commitments during the past 70 years and discusses challenges that will influence the future of SOPHE and the contours of the research and practice agendas of the field going forward.

scholarly journals Planning for Program Diffusion

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Karen Denard Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Diffusion Process ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Education Literature ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Successful Program ◽  
Workplace Policies ◽  
Model Programs ◽  
Program Replication

Many programs shown effective in single trials are never adopted or successfully implemented in other sites. While the health education literature does include descriptions of efforts to diffuse research, programs, curricula, and workplace policies and examples of instruments for measuring aspects of the diffusion process, it does not include an overview of program diffusion principles and practices. The purpose of this article is to provide program planners with research and practice based insights into the program diffusion process. After identifying and defining key program diffusion terms, discussing diffusion’s theoretical bases, and arguing for more pro-active program replication among health educators, the author discusses program diffusion options (dissemination and/or replication), presents existing criteria for identifying model programs, puts forward typical reasons why program replication fails, and suggests specific strategies for increasing the likelihood of successful program replication. The paper ends with a call to plan programs with replication in mind.

Health Educators: Role Modeling and Smoking Behavior

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. J. Brennan ◽  
Nicholas Galli
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Education Association ◽  
Professional Health ◽  
Former Smokers ◽  
Chi Square Analysis

This study examined cigarette smoking among health educators, their views about the effects of this behavior upon their audiences and their beliefs about smoking in light of their professional role. Questionnaires (496) were mailed to the membership of a professional health education association. Respondents were asked about smoking practices, the purpose of smoking educational programs, and their views on health educators as role models. Of the 89.7 percent respondents, 57.1 percent were nonsmokers, 32.4 percent were former smokers, and 10.5 percent smoked regularly. Using chi-square analysis, it was found that smokers and nonsmokers were significantly ( p < .001) less inclined to feel that the role of health education is to “convince people not to smoke.” Also, smokers were significantly ( p < .001) less inclined to indicate that a health educator “should set a good example.”

scholarly journals Moving Health Education and Behavior Upstream: Lessons From COVID-19 for Addressing Structural Drivers of Health Inequities

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Schulz ◽  
Roshanak Mehdipanah ◽  
Linda M. Chatters ◽  
Angela G. Reyes ◽  
Enrique W. Neblett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Protective Resources ◽  
Life Course Framework ◽  
And Behavior

In this Perspective, we build on social justice and emancipatory traditions within the field of health education, and the field’s long-standing commitment to building knowledge and shared power to promote health equity, to examine lessons and opportunities for health education emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining patterns that emerged as the pandemic unfolded in Metropolitan Detroit, with disproportionate impacts on African American and low-income communities, we consider conditions that contributed to excess exposure, mortality, and reduced access to critical health protective resources. Using a life course framework, we consider enduring impacts of the pandemic for health equity. Finally, we suggest several strategic actions in three focal areas—environment, occupation, and housing—that can be taken by health educators working in partnership with community members, researchers, and decision makers, using, for example, a community-based participatory research approach, to reduce adverse impacts of COVID-19 and promote long-term equity in health.

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