Health culture
Is a means to help people live a healthy life, and contribute to the prevention of exposure to diseases of all kinds. When people maintain their health, this affects the community as a whole, and reduces the spread of diseases, and thus increase awareness about the nature of the disease, causes and symptoms that appear On the injured, and appropriate methods, and correct treatment.
Health education is an ongoing process based on a set of basic knowledge that aims to change the behavior of individuals and make them more concerned with their health by following a specific method of directing health information to all people, whatever their age. Health education is an important part, And is a key part of the treatment used to reduce the negative effects of disease.
Goals of health culture
For health culture, a set of goals, namely:
- Define individuals with the concepts of health culture and public health.
- Help people recognize diseases.
- Contribute to finding a cure for health problems.
- Change the wrong health ideas in individuals.
- Change inappropriate behaviors in treatment.
- Reduce disease rates as much as possible.
- Reduce mortality rates.
- Develop the lives of individuals.
Elements of health culture
To achieve its objectives, health culture depends on the following elements:
- Health message: A content that consists of general health information or a specific disease, and contains all the details that contribute to the description of the health conditions of individuals.
- A healthy intellectual: He is the person who has all the information, experience, and competence to provide the right explanation for other people about health culture.
- Targeted by a healthy culture: They are the group of people who are seeking a healthy educator to deliver their health message appropriately, so that they can understand, understand, and apply it in their daily lives.
- Health education means the method of communicating the health message, from the educated to the health target of the health culture, such as: holding lectures, or printing brochures containing all the information of health culture.
Methods of health culture
Health culture is used to reach the desired results, a variety of means, namely:
- The culture of individuals is the lifestyle of people. It is the first method of health education to influence a group of members of the society. These individuals change the concepts of others. Thus, the health culture continues to achieve the tasks required of it successfully.
- Available resources: All the ways to connect health education to individuals, whether written, audio, or visual, such as newspapers, television, the Internet, etc.
- Educational methods: the delivery of health culture using teaching, and the most targeted groups of this method are students, at all levels, both in schools, or universities, and also available training courses for individuals in the community.