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Principles and Health Education - All health workers have recognized that education kssehatan it is important to support health programs are another. But in fact this recognition is not supported by reality. That is, the health care programs of health education are less involved. Although the program may have involved health education, but lacking in substance. Their argument is that health education was not immediately and clearly show the results.
In other words, health education was not immediately bring benefits to society, and are easily seen or measured. This is true because education is the investment is a long-term behavioral. New health education investment results can be seen a few years later. In a short time (immediate impact) health education only produces a change or an increase in public knowledge. While the increase in knowledge alone is not going to affect the health indicators.
Health knowledge will affect the behavior of the intermediate outcomes (intermediate impact) of health education. Subsequent health behaviors will affect the growing public health indicators as outputs (outcomes) of health education. This is in contrast with other health programs, especially programs that can provide direct treatment outcomes (immediate impact) to decrease pain.
Role of Health Education
All public health experts in discussing the status kasehatan referring to HL. Blum. From the results of his research in the United States, one of the advanced countries, HL-Blum concluded that the environment has contributed most to the health status; later followed by successive behavior, health care, and offspring who have contributed the least to the status health.
What proportion of these factors referring to health status in developing countries, especially in Indonesia, there has been no research. If it is possible behavioral research has a greater contribution. Research writer at Pasar Rebo, East Jakarta district on the nutritional status of children under five by using stepwise analysis, it is evident that the behavior of selected variables, while the per capita income variable (economic) not selected. Although economic variables here yet represent all environment variables, but at least greater steering behavior and other variables.
Furthermore Lewrence Green explained that the behavior dilatar-backs or influenced by three main factors, namely:
- Predisposing factors (predisposing factors such as the Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, Traditions, Values, Etc),
- Factors supporting (enabling factors such as availability Sumber-sumber/Fasilitas)
- Factors that reinforce or encourage (reinforcing factors such as Attitude and Behaviour Officer).
Therefore health education as a factor of behavioral intervention efforts should be directed to the three principal factors.