Education, cognition, health knowledge, and health behavior

oral health care education regarding the gingival health, knowledge, attitude, and behavior of the pregnant women

conclusions this study showed the superiority of direct method of presentation in changing pregnant women’s knowledge and behavior about oral health care. background during pregnancy, physiological changes occur in body, which resulting results in oral health problems such as caries, tooth mobility, and pregnancy gingivitis. inflammatory mediators might seriously affect the fetus and placenta. ...

Health Education and Health Promotion

The need to pay attention to differences in health literacy and knowledge in health education interventions

The Health Literacy (HL) is an individual and social capacity for access, understanding, evaluation of information and health services, and optimal utilization of it for health promotion [1]. Today, HL has been recognized as an important and vital indicator of the results and costs of health care the need for the effective health care system, has a good level of health literacy [2]. According t...

Health Education and Behavior: Are School Health Educators in Denial?

INTRODUCTION In the course of its history, health education has operated under a number of different and often competing philosophical positions. The present situation is a microcosm of the past in that each of these differing positions is alive and well in various corners of health education practice today. Some might conclude that such diversity of viewpoints, or philosophies, indicates a ric...

The effect of education in physical activities on knowledge, attitude and behavior of Kerman health center’s staff

According to WHO estimation, physical inactivity causes around 1.9 million deaths in the world annually. Also, regarding the importance of physical activity in chronic disease prevention, we decided to assess the effect of education on the physical activities knowledge, attitude and behavior of Kerman Health Canter's staff. This is a semi experimental study in Kerman Health Canter's staff provi...