Significance of health education

WHAT IS HEALTH EDUCATION DIVISION ?
 Responsible to publish health education materials
for the use of health staff in various health
education activities.
 Involved in managing health education and
promotion of programs and mass media campaigns.
 The general objectives are promoting healthy living
among individuals, family and the community.

OBJECTIVES
To enhance awareness and understanding about health
among the general public.
To promote healthy lifestyles among Malaysians.
FUNCTIONS
Develop, disseminate and evaluate mass media programs.
Publication of health education material.
Research on health education activities.
Training for Health Education Programs.

Healthy Lifestyle Campaign
Patient Education Health Programme
Family Health Programme
HEALTH EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

1. HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CAMPAIGN
 Encouraging healthy lifestyle among family members.
 Educating family members to understand and act in a
responsible way in their lifestyle.
 Enhancing knowledge and skills in the family members to
meet the physical, mental and social needs of the family.
 Cultivating religious and moral values.
 Promoting safety and security to enhance emotional well-
being in the family.

Campaign covered various aspects which are:
Physical aspects
- healthy eating, exercise, home safety.
Mental aspects
- promotion of emotional security and safety
(love, kindness) and good family relationship.
Social aspects
- enhancement of religious and social values, social
support and promotion of good neighborliness.

2. PATIENT EDUCATION HEALTH PROGRAMME
 Helps patient, family and community to be responsible in
managing patients and respective disease condition to
encourage the rehabilitation process.
 To reduce non-compliance and promote the optimum usage
of hospitals services and reduce hospital cost of patient care.

3. FAMILY HEALTH PROGRAMME
 Undertaken by Family Health Development Division.
 Manages delivery of family health, nutrition and primary
health care services at all levels.
 The general objective is to develop and maintain optimal
health status for individuals, family and community through
Primary Health Care.

OBJECTIVES
To provide comprehensive health care services to prevent morbidity
and mortality, promote and maintain health population.
• Pregnant mothers and newborns
• Infants and toddlers.
• Men and women.
• Elderly.
• Children with special needs.
To promote and maintain community mental health status.
To promote healthy diet and nutrition practices and maintain
nutritional status of community.
To provide primary health care services to the population
To promote wellness and facilitate maximum recovery from illness.

Objectives have been implemented through the following activities:
Strengthening antenatal, post-natal care through monitoring and
evaluation
Strengthening infant and child by ensuring high immunization
coverage, early detection and intervention of growth and development
issues special needs children.
Encouraging schools to adopt healthy schools concepts by promoting
health related activities.

Objectives have been implemented through the following activities:
Expanding the scope of the family health programme to include
adolescent, elderly, rehabilitative care and mental health services.
Strengthening nutrition promotion and healthy eating practices.
Strengthening breastfeeding programme.
Improving and strengthening primary health care services, with the
presence of family health specialist practitioners.
Intensifying community participation in health services.

STRATEGIES
Resources and facilities planning, development, monitoring and
evaluation.
Utilization of effective health information system.
Utilization of appropriate and up to date technology.
Provision of services that fulfill the vision of a caring society, client
needs and maintenance of environment.
Smart partnership between related agencies including non
governmental agencies.
Fostering community participation in all programs
Internalization of quality characteristics in aspects of health
services.
Utilization research or studies as a tool in programme planning.

THANK YOU!
FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Email : anaazeem@yahoo.com Azimah Hassan

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