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• Health education involves learning experiences that promote voluntary actions for health.
• Health education dates back to the 1800s.
• The field only started becoming a distinct discipline during the 1940s.
• The Joint Committee on Health Education and Promotion Terminology defined health education in 2001: any mix of planned learning experiences grounded in theories that empower individuals, groups, and communities to get the skills and information needed for sound health decisions.
• Health Education empowers communities and individuals helping them make improvements to their physical, mental, emotional and social well-being.
• Health education encourages healthy lifestyles and emphasizes health awareness.
• The Philippine Nursing Act of 2002 (RA 9173), Rule IV, Article IX, Section 28 states nurses should provide health education to communities and families.

Functions of a Health Educator

• Health Educators should work responsibly so as to improve health within communities.
• Health Educators should assess individual and community health education needs with sensitivity.
• Health educators should implement and develop strategies and programs for health education.
• Health educators should assess and explore research related to Health Education.
• Health Educators should implement and administer strategies and programs for health education.
• Health educators act a resource of information for Health Education
• Health Educators should communicate and advocate for health and health education.

Seven Key Areas of Responsibility for a Health Educator

• Assessing Needs, Resources, and Capacity for Health Education includes identifying community needs, strengths, and cultural factors.

• Planning Health Education includes identifying needs, objectives, activities, resources, constraints, and evaluation.

• Implementing Health Education/Promotion

• Conduct Evaluation and Research Related to Health Education/Promotion includes process, impact, and outcome evaluation.

• Administer and Manage Health Education/Promotion

• Serve as a resource person

• Communicate and advocate for health and health education, addressing mental health topics such as shame and fear.

Planned Learning Experiences involve:

• Comprehensive school health
• Physical education and activity
• Nutrition services
• School health services
• School counseling
• Psychological & social services
• Healthy and safe school environments
• Engaging students
• Involving family and community in schools
• "Students must be healthy to be educated and must be educated to be healthy."

Biopsychosocial Model (BPS)

• It explains that medical conditions occur through an interplay of biological factors, psychological influences, and social factors.
• Biological factors include organ system functions and adaptive mechanisms.
• Psychological aspects include attitudes, emotions, perceptions, and behavior.
• Social factors include socioeconomic status, cultural practices or beliefs, technology, poverty, environmental factors, and conditions.

Health Promotion Vs Health Education

• Health promotion aims to improve health via education using social and psychological considerations and various cultural and political factors.
• Health education aims to better inform people in the area of health.
• The first formal conference on health promotion was in 1986.
• The first public school of health was in 1914 to 1939.
• Policy development as well as educational materials; government agencies also collect statistics to inform their decision-making.
• Education is in the form of lectures, notes, pamphlets, seminars, and courses.
• Social and political factors have gained an increased emphasis in recent years on health promotion, but not in health education.
• In health promotion policy is an important aspect, often developed as part of health promotion efforts for the population.
• Policy is not a direct part of health education
• Health educators will have great opportunities in the future.
• They must adapt their skillsets.
• They will play a vital part in keeping the population healthy.
• There will be collaboration with other professions and advocacy for the underrepresented.
• New technologies, wellness emphasis, new settings, environmental connections, and cost effectiveness of consumer education are future directions for patient care.
• There are several theories relating to Health, including: Pender's Health Promotion Theory, Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory, Becker's Health Belief Model and Green's Precede-Proceed Model

Pender's Health Promotion Theory

• Health promotion aims to increase a clients wellness level while describing human multidimensional interactions when pursuing health in relation to their environment.
• Factors such as prior related behavior, perceived action benefits, self-efficacy, influences, and feelings all impact commitment to health.

Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory

• Self-efficacy is the measure of a person's capacity to execute behaviors needed to produce performance attainments.
• These include vicarious experience, social persuasion, performance experience, imaginal experience, and physical and emotional states.

Becker's Health Belief Model

• It states that the chances of adopting a healthy behaviour depend on the outcome of made assessments.
• The two assessments involve threat of a health problem and pros and cons of taking action.
• It relies on modifying variables, perceived susceptibility, perceived benefits, perceived threat, perceived barriers, self-efficacy, and action cues.

Green's Precede-Proceed Model

• The PRECEDE-PROCEED model is a comprehensive framework that assesses health needs and designs, implements and evaluates other public health and health promotion programs to meet those needs.
• PRECEDE provides program structure, while PROCEED the structure to implement and assess it.
• The parts for implementing this model consist of: social assessment, epidemiological assessment, educational and ecological assessment, administrative and policy assessment, implementation, process evaluation, impact evaluation, and outcome evaluation.