Health Education

1 - the foundations of health education

The past decades have seen a radical change in the patterns of disease spread among members of the community from infectious diseases to chronic diseases, especially diseases that expressed life style diseases such as pressure, heart disease and diabetes
Many of these diseases are the result of the erratic behavior Hence, health education is the cornerstone for the prevention of this disease, but is the first  the health promotion it is which is the upgrading of knowledge and information and building trends and changing health behaviors.


During the recent years has been promoting the concepts of health education became note of science knowledge is used behavioral and educational theories and methods of communication and means of education and the principles of the media to improve the health level of the individual and society.
2 - look at the legitimacy of health education:
I've cared Islam special attention health education Many what is stated in the Quran and the Sunnah about health falls within the framework of health education, and these religious texts constitute the intellectual health mainly legitimately solid stems from which in health education activities,  health is the most effective and most occurred in the hearts of people When we go the premises legitimacy and religious directives People are more receptive to health guidelines when they know they are part of the teachings of their religion.

3 - Definition Aalthagafah the health
There are several definitions of health education and include the following:
* Media operation aimed at urging people to adopt lifestyle and healthy practices.
* Helping people to improve their behavior in a manner that preserves their health. * Continuous is to seek to promote the health of the individual and the community, and try to prevent or minimize the occurrence of disease through the impact on beliefs, attitudes, and behavior individually and socially. * Process is achieved by way raise health awareness by providing the individual with information and experiences in order to influence the knowledge, orientation and behavior in terms of their health and the health of the society in which they live.
It is during the last definitions, we can say that the health education: is the sum of activities aimed at improving health knowledge and building trends and instill healthy behaviors of the individual and the community.

4 - concepts in health education:

- Health Aalthagafah process connected to a continuous and cumulative They are not easy and simple process if we take into account that it does not aim to deliver only knowledge but to change behavior.
- Health education can be likened to an equilateral triangle rib to gain information (knowledge) and the rib to instill and consolidate the values ​​associated with that information (direction) and the last leg of the application of that information (behavior). - Health education is one of the basic elements of a primary health care permeates each and every one of the other seven elements and is designed to support and promote healthy behaviors.
- Health education facilitates the process of learning and change a specific behavior to healthy behavior properly.
- Health education develops in people a sense of responsibility towards their community's health and increases their effective participation.


5 - health education objectives: 

- disseminate concepts and sound health knowledge in the community.
- To enable people to identify their health problems and needs.
- To help people solve their health problems using their potential.
- Build a normal health trends.
- Establishing the proper health behavior and the wrong change to healthy behavior properly.
- The ultimate goal of health education is:
- Improve the health level of the individual and society.
- To reduce the occurrence of diseases.
- Reduce disability and mortality.
- Improve the quality of life of the individual and the community.

6 - Why do health education?
Everybody needs to health education, old and young, men and women, educated and illiterate as it works to improve awareness and raise the level of interest and awareness among all segments of society.
7 - Topics intellectual health:
There is no limit to the topics that can be addressed by intellectual health, as it can to address any topic related to health condition that fits this topic with the need of the targeted individual or group health education.
- When is health Aalthagafah?
At any time, but it will be more effective if it was at a time appropriate to the circumstances of the target health education and needs.
Where is the health education?
Anywhere.
Target health culture: every human being in need of health education.
- Who is the intellectual health?
Anyone has a valid health information and received good training and is capable of delivering the information with his skills.