Volume : V, Issue : I, January - 2016

HEALTH EDUCATION: PRESENT LANDSCAPE AND FUTURE VISTAS

Dr. Sanjeev Sharma, Dr. Savita Sharma

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Health education is indispensable in achieving individual and community health. It can help to increase knowledge and to reinforce desired behaviour patterns. It is a process that informs , motivates and helps people to adopt and maintain healthy practices and lifestyle, advocates environmental changes as needed to facilitate this goal and conduct a professional training and research to the same end. The health education extends beyond the conventional health sector. It covers every aspect of family and community health. While no definite training curricula can be proposed, the content of health education may be divided into divisions for the sake of simplicity. Since health education has a limited impact when directed from general education, most of the needed information must be integrated into educational system by ways of books, class room materials etc. and must have the young population as the principal target. Health education cannot be given to one person by another. It involves, the teaching , learning and inculcation of habits concerned with the objective of healthful living. This review captures how the health education efforts in the country have been aided by concerted actions within the discipline and by an enabling environment and a positive intent at the national level, whereby we can better understand the context for the recent developments in Indian health Education.

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Dr. Sanjeev Sharma, Dr. Savita Sharma Health Education: Present Landscape And Future Vistas International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 5, Issue : 1 January 2016

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