Health Education : Theory and Practice
Contents: Preface. 1. Social development, social services and health care. 2. Nature and scope of public health administration. 3. Challenges of health and hospital administration in new millennium. 4. Health education: nature and scope. 5. Significance of health education. 6. Problems of health education. 7. Planning for health education. 8. Health education through community participation. 9. Information, education and communication. 10. Essential qualities in health professionals for promoting health education. 11. Health education with individuals (counselling). Appendices. Bibliography. Index.
"Health is of great significance for the overall development of the country. Until and unless people of a country are not healthy, they cannot contribute their potential energy to socio-economic development, nation-building and modernization.
Despite overall improvements in socio-economic status and increasing life expectancy, the prevalence of infectious diseases continues to be an area of major concern in the health sector. With the decline in death rate and increase in life expectancy, epidemiological transition is underway resulting in an increase in non-communicable diseases like cardio vascular ailments, communicable and non-communicable diseases, the department of health is implementing National Health Programmes throughout the country for Malaria, TB, Leprosy, Blindness, AIDS, Cancer, Mental Health, etc. Coverage of disease surveillance programme is also being extended to prevent out-break of infectious diseases. Central institutions and organizations engaged in the provision of health care services, medical education and research are continuously being strengthened for tackling the problems in the area of public health.
The book "Health Education : Theory and Practice" is the first in the series of this encyclopaedia in health education. It covers the principles, methods and philosophy of the theory and practice of health education. The book has been divided into 11 chapters dealing with nature and challenges of health services as well as the methods and techniques to cope with them with health education. Health education is panacea for health." (jacket)
