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PubMed1991

Foundations of nursing's perspectives on health education.

Nursing is one of the many diverse disciplines on which health education draws for theoretical perspectives, research, and practice tools. It brings more than a 130 year heritage of practice with individuals, groups, institutions, and communities toward the goals of restoring, promoting, and maintaining health. Nursing's more recent history of theory development and research, in which relationships are examined between persons, their environment and health, is especially germane to the art and science of health education. In nursing, health education is one of a large repertoire of intervention actions nurses take to support healing, caring, and health with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. The theoretical foundations of these actions characterize the nursing domain and guide research and practice. In this paper, several theoretical frameworks from nursing and health education are examined to bring their perspectives more clearly into focus for the mutual advance of both fields.

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PubMed2003

The role of health education and sanitation in the control of helminth infections.

Health education and sanitation are two important components of primary health care system introduced by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a basis for the prevention and control of communicable diseases. However, the roles of health education and sanitation in disease control have been controversial, especially in the wake of recent advances in safe and effective oral drugs. This article has reviewed the various health education and sanitation interventions around the world to determine what roles they have played in the past relative to other intervention strategies and the role they have to play in future control efforts. It appears clear-cut from the review, that while chemotherapy has been and will remain the best option for morbidity control, sanitation has an important role to play not only to sustain the benefits of chemotherapy but also to protect the uninfected. Health education that is effective, simple and low-cost remains the only tool for creating the enabling environment for both chemotherapy and sanitation to thrive.

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PubMed2001

Educating health professionals in a community setting: what students value.

CONTEXT: Health care and health professions education has been shifting into community settings. Hawai'i participated in the Community Partnerships for Health Professions Education program, an initiative funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation that aimed to develop educational collaboration between community health centers, their respective communities and health professions schools. OBJECTIVE: In 1998, after completing 5 academic years in this program, former students from one community health center site were polled to begin exploring those components of their experience that were most valuable to their subsequent health care practice. METHOD: A survey was mailed to 65 former students, asking three questions: (1) what three components of your Ke Ola O Hawai'i experience (Wai'anae site) had the most impact on your practice;(2) is there anything else you would like us to know; and (3) where do you see yourself in 5 years? FINDINGS: Thirty responses were received for a 46% response rate. Students identified three components as having the greatest impact: (1) the multiprofessional approach to health care and learning, (2) the community setting/contact, and (3) understanding the culture of the community. A fourth component that was also revealed was the impact this experience had on their personal and professional growth. Most students reported employment or plans to practice in a community-based, rural, or underserved area. CONCLUSION: These responses introduce ideas for sustaining a community-based multi-professional curriculum that is relevant to current health care practice.

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PubMed1989

[Health education in urban pediatric polyclinics].

The state of health education in city children's polyclinics was analyzed in 7 republics (RSFSR, the Lithuanian, Estonian, Kirghiz, Kazakh, Turkmenian and Azerbaijan SSR) and parents' preparedness to bring up a healthy child was evaluated in children's polyclinics of Moscow, Alma-Ata, Rostov-on-Don and the Rostov Region. 1126 medical workers (chief physicians, sector pediatricians, different specialists) and 435 parents of infants of the first year were interviewed. Unsatisfactory state and insufficient efficacy of health education pertaining to the problems of upbringing a healthy child were pointed out along with the absence of modern scientifically proved programme, methodological materials on health education of the parents with infants, necessary printed and visual materials for parents. The study findings helped to determine ways for further improvement of health education and family training at city children's polyclinics.

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PubMed2005

[The pediatrician's waiting room: a place for health education?].

OBJECTIVES: To assess the presence and impact of health education messages in pediatricians' waiting rooms. METHODS: In September 2001, 81 pediatricians completed a questionnaire about the furnishings and equipment in their waiting rooms. They also distributed a questionnaire about waiting room health education messages to parents, to be completed at home. RESULTS: The analysis considered 1830 questionnaires. Health education messages were posted in 91% of the waiting rooms and most frequently concerned children's accidents, vaccines, hygiene and nutrition. The best topics that the parents remembered involved child neglect, antibiotic therapy, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and nutrition. Although memorization of the messages was not influenced by duration of the wait, it was higher among parents who had previously visited the pediatrician. These messages led 14% of the parents to discuss them spontaneously with their pediatrician. CONCLUSION: Health education messages are posted in nearly all the waiting rooms studied; parents remember them in a variable and rather inexplicable order. Posting these messages demonstrates the pediatricians' willingness to be involved - beyond the simple consultation - in the health education of children and families. Identifying the real impact of these messages would require further study.

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PubMed1984

Research on disseminating and implementing health education programs in schools.

Numerous school health education programs have been developed. No matter how effective a given program may be, however, its impact will be determined by the extent to which it actually is disseminated and maintained in classrooms. The dissemination of a program involves purposeful efforts by agencies usually outside the school to implement the program in many different schools, efforts by agencies usually outside the school to implement the program in many different schools, while program implementation involves efforts by those within a given school to effectively use the program in its classrooms. This paper has been prepared to review concepts, strategies, and methods used to study dissemination and implementation; to specify the functions of dissemination and implementation research; and to describe general approaches and specific procedures to evaluate the effectiveness of dissemination and implementation activities. As we develop more and better school health education interventions, the need for research that will allow us to efficiently transport these interventions to classrooms throughout the nation becomes increasingly important.

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