Public Participation in Health Education

public participation in environmental education centers

this paper presents participation of faculties and heads of department (hods) in environmental education. for this purpose 60 hods/faculties from polytechnic colleges of tamilnadu, india and 100 hods/ faculties from associate degree level technical institutions in iran from civil engineering branch were selected. several hypotheses were formulated to achieve certain objectives of the study. th...

Public Health Propaganda and Education

Changing Concepts in Public Health Education *

Determination of the exact events leading to the origin of any social movement is difficult; with public health education those factors which set the wheels in motion are hard to identify. In the late nineteenth century, schools in widely scattered areas introduced the first meager courses in physical education, home economics, and in an understanding of the evils of alcohol and narcotics. At t...

Problems and progress in public health education.

Further development of public health education is critical to improve population health globally. A debate on the relevance and direction of some 400 schools of public health and many other related institutions around the world is therefore timely. Some argue that most public health schools set up in low-income countries blindly follow their counterparts in high-income countries, reproducing cl...

Health education: the family health teams' perspective and clients' participation.

This study aimed to understand the conception and performance of health education developed by the Family Health Team with a view to clients' participation. Qualitative study carried out with clients and professionals at the Family Health Program (FHP) in Crato, CE, Brazil. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and observation between May and September, 2005. Data were organize...