Health educators play a critical role in promoting well-being through a variety of methods and strategies. Their efforts are categorized into three levels of prevention: primary, secondary, and tertiary.
8. Partnership - working
collaboratively across disciplines,
to enhance the impact of health
promotion programs and policies
7. Advocacy - Advocating with and
on behalf of individual and
communities to improve their
health and well-being and building
their capacity for actions.
6. Evaluation - determining the
effectiveness of health promotion
program and policies.
5. Implementing - Carrying out
effective and efficient, culturally
sensitive and ethical strategies to
ensure the greatest improvements
in health
4. Planning - Developing
measureable goals and objectives
in response to assessment of need.
3. Assessment - Conducting
asessment of needs and assets in
communities and system.
2. Leadership - Providing strategic
direction for developing health
puublic policy.
1. Catalyzing change - Enabling
change and empowering
individuals and communities.
3. Identify role of
Health Educators
i. Assessing
ii. Planning
iii. Implementing
iv. Evaluating
v. Coordinating
vi. Acting
vii. Communicating
Subtopic
2. Three level of Prevention
Tertiary prevention
-Aimed at rehabilitation following
significant pathogenesis
Secondary prevention
-Lead to early diagnosis and
prompt treatment of a disease,
illness, or injury to limit
dependency and prevent more
severe pathogenesis.
Primary prevention
-Forestall the onset of illness or
injury during the
prepathogenesis period.
1. Health Educator.
a professional individual who
serves in a variety of roles
and specifically trained to
use appropriate educational
strategies and method to
facilitate the development
of policies, procedures, and
systems conducive