UCU 2104: HEALTH EDUCATION (Dr.

Richard)

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Class Hour: Tuesday 4 PM-6:00PM

Office Hours: 10:00 am – 12.00 pm Thursday
Call or stop by for an appointment.
(3 Credit Hours)

Course Purpose
To expose students to issues in health education.
Expected Learning outcomes
On completion of this course, the students should be able to:
1. Describe the meaning, development and significance of Health Education;
2. Explain the various components of Environmental Health;
3. Describe the general principles of physical, mental and sexual health;
4. Describe good nutrition and social habits; and
5. Explain how to provide emergency care and treatment in varied circumstances
Course Description
Introduction to Health Education: Definition, Scope, Development and Significance; Environmental Health:
Public Health, Safety and Hygiene; Physical Health: Stages of Growth and Development, Significant
development, disorders and care, Prevalent Human Diseases (HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Malaria, Diabetes, Emerging
Diseases like COVID among others); Physical fitness; Mental Health: Common Mental Disorders, Stress and
Stress Management, Depression, Suicide and Coping Strategies Social Health: Relationships, Social Virtues,
Human Rights, Gender Equality, Disability Mainstreaming; Sexual and Reproductive Health: Family Planning
and Population Control, Good Sexual habits and Rights, Sexually, Transmitted Infections; Health and nutrition:
Principles of Nutrition, Significant Human Nutrients, Balanced Diet; Substance Abuse: Common Substances
abused and their related effects (Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana, Other Hard Drugs); Emergency Care Treatment:
Overview of Disaster Management, First Aid.

Teaching Methodologies
Lectures, oral presentations, additional activities e.g. writing on chalk board, exercises, class questions and
discussions or student presentation. Tutorials to give the students more attention.

Instructional Materials/Equipment
White- board, chalk, white board marker, duster, computer and projector, videos and visual aids

Course Assessment
One sit-in End of semester written Examination=70%; Continuous Assessment 30% (one 1 hr. Sit-in written
test=10%; one assignment=10%; one presentation=10%) Total =100%.

Course Text Books

1. Connolly, M. (2020). Skills-based health education.
2. National, Learning Corporation. (2019). Health Education. Passbooks.

Reference Text Books

1. Gilbert, G. G., Sawyer, R. G., & McNeil, E. B. (2015). Health education: Creating strategies for school and
community health.
2. Sassen, B. (2018). Nursing: Health education and improving patient self-management.

Course Journals
1. Journal of Health Education (1991 - 2000)
2. American Journal of Health Education
3. Journal of Health Education Research & Development

Reference Journals
1. International Journal of Education and Health
2. International Journal of Health Sciences Education
3. African Journal of Health Professions Education

EBooks
1. Benes, S., & Alperin, H. (2016). The essentials of teaching health education: Curriculum, instruction, and
assessment.
2. Doyle, E., Ward, S., & Oomen-Early, J. (2019). The process of community health education and promotion.

Meaning of Health Education:

Health Education is concerned with promoting health as well as reducing behavior induced diseases. In other
words health education is concerned with establishing or inducing changes in personal and group’s attitudes
and behavior that promote healthier living.
Definitions of Health Education:
Health education as the sum of experiences, which favorably influence habits attitudes and knowledge
relating of the individual community and social health.
Health education like general education is concerned with changes in knowledge, feelings and behavior of
people. In its most usual form it concentrates on developing such health practices as are believed to bring
about the best possible state of well- being.
a. To provide information about health and its value as community asset – Health education aims at
acquainting the etchers with the rules of health and hygiene. Functioning of Precautionary measures to ward
off diseases and to provide good disease free working conditions.
b. To maintain norms of good health: The authorities should provide hygienic environment in the form of
adequate ventilation proper temperature, good sanitation and all round cleanliness. It helps the authorities to
keep certain norms of health.

c. To take precautionary and preventive measures against communicable diseases. Its aim is to take adequate
precautions against contamination and spread of diseases. Thus good sanitary arrangements are made.
Precautionary and preventive measures. If they are properly adopted can help in improving the health
standards of society.
d. To render assistance to the school going children an understanding of the nature and purpose of health
services and facilities – It aims at discovering physical defects and other abnormalities in the child and
promoting their reduction if they are easily curable.
e. To develop and promote mental and emotional health – Mental and emotional health are also equally
important along with physical health. While physically health makes a pupil physically fit mental and
emotional health enables him to maintain an even temper and a happy disposition.
f. To develop a sense of civic responsibility. School is a miniature society Responsibility of skill health does not
lie on any one’s shoulders. Even some cause of skill health has their origin in social conditions which require
action on the part of community as a whole in order to eradicate them. It aims at realizing the people to make
combined efforts and work for community health.

Objectives of health Education:

1. To enable the students to develop a scientific point of view of health with reference to traditional and
modern concept of health.
2. To enable the students to identify health problems and understand their own role on health and to medical
agencies in meeting those problems.
3. To enable the student to take interest in current events related to health.
4. To enable the students to arrive at suitable conclusions based on scientific knowledge and take action as an
individual member of the family and community for protecting maintaining and promoting individual and
community health.
5. To enable the students to set an example of desirable health behavior.
6. To enable the student to understand the causes of the pollution of air water, soil and food as well as their
ways and means of prevention.
7. To enable the students to gain sufficient knowledge of first aid.
8. To provide desirable knowledge about marriage sex and family planning to the students.
9. To help students to understand the importance of Physical training sports, games, yogic exercises as well as
their relationship with health education programme.
10. The emphasize students on the bad effects of smoking and taking alcohol etc.
11. The acquaint students with the functioning of various organizations working for the maintenance of
health.
12. To help students understand how the present day rapid development of science and technology as
increased the hazards of life and health problems and also how to face and
prevent them.
Importance of Health Education:
If health is so precious asset then education of health is indeed, more important. Health education helps us in
following ways:
1. Health education provides information to the students and the teachers about the function of the body the
rule of health and hygiene and precautionary measures for keeping of diseases.
2. Health education helps in discovering physical defects of children and discovering various types of
abnormalities of children.
3. Health education develops health habits like need of fresh air, hygienic feeding and various class room
habits.
4. Health education provided knowledge regarding good health habits.
5. Health education develops better human relations between school, home, and community.
6. Health education provides knowledge regarding prevention and control of various diseases.
7. Health education proving first aid training essential for everyone an emergency may come to any one and at
any time.
PUBLIC HEALTH -
This is protection and improvement of health of the entire population through
- Community –wide action. primarily by government agencies
- The goals of public health is comparable to those of HIV/AIDS education.
1)-Prevent human disease, injury and disability
2)-Protect people from environment health hazards
3)-Promote behaviors that lead to good physical and mental health.
4)-Educate the public about health and assure availability of high quality health.
Personnel’s
Veterinarians, sanitary engineers, microbiologists, statisticians, economists,
Laboratory technologist among others
Public health their roles are:
Inspecting and licensing of restaurants
Conducting rodents and pest control
Checking on safety of houses
Right food and safe water supply
Advocate of rules and regulation-(Product labeling, drug labelling, drug licencing).

Epidemiologist= these are people who use sophisticated computer and mathematical models to track incidence
of communicable diseases and to identify new disease and health trends.
Others conduct state of art medical research to find new prevention and treatment methods.
Hygiene: can be defined as science of dealing with the prevention of health or the practice or principles of
cleanliness. This is foreseen by Pubic health offices.
Programs
Vaccination, this is deliberate process of making the body resistant to specific diseases by using vaccines. (A
suspension or product of infectious agent that is used to produce active immune)
Eg polio, measles. Mumps, diphtheria. (These diseases result to outbreaks that threaten to grow to epidemics)
Advantage of vaccination do eliminate infectious diseases, e.g. small pox in 1979.
Others have been partially reduced.