Health Education Programme

This document discusses the importance of health education and its impact on individuals' well-being. It provides a critical analysis of a local health education intervention, including planning, resourcing, and implementation. The document also evaluates the success, limitations, barriers, and opportunities of the intervention. Additionally, it explores potential alternative interventions to address health issues.

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Running head: HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Health Education Programme

Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
Background of local intervention selected.............................................................................................5
Critical analyze process that led planning, resourcing, and implementing of intervention....................6
Analyze changes occurred in health education programmes..................................................................9
Evaluation of findings by determining limitations, success, barriers and opportunities.......................11
Summary.............................................................................................................................................12
References...........................................................................................................................................13

Introduction
Health education can be termed as the learning experience about any kind of disease that is
occurred among the people. The health education programme is designed to help individuals
to improve their health by obtaining knowledge in the context of different diseases that can
be suffered by human beings. In other words, it can be termed as the professional to educate
the people about health and different diseases they are suffered from. With the help of health
education, it helps the people to get knowledge in term of physical, mental, as well as social
health. It encourages the people to enhance and maintain their health prevent from disease as
well as minimize the risky behavior (Vichealth, 2018). Moreover, health education not only
teaches about content knowledge but it also teaches skills regarding decision-making,
problem-solving, communication negotiation and advocacy skills.
In other words, it can be defined as the principle that helps the group of people to learn to
behave in an appropriate manner in terms of promotion, maintenance, as well as health
restoration. In addition, Health education is defined by “World Health Organization” that
consists of opportunities that include communication form to enhance health literacy, as well
as include enhancement of knowledge. It also helps in developing skills of life that are
favorable to community health and individual (Kuyken et al., 2013). It also depicts that all the

countries conduct different health education programmes to help people to gain knowledge
for different diseases (Heart Foundation, 2018).
The aim of the report is to analyze critically local health education intervention. For this
report, “Community-based interventions” is selected as it is helpful in preventing obesity
from the Australian people”. The report analyzes who is targeted and provide reason they are
recruited for intervention. It also determines practical processes that led to planning,
resourcing and intervention implementation. The findings are also evaluated by taking into
consideration limitations, success, barriers and opportunities.

Background of “Community-based interventions”
Health education promotion programmes are at an increasing rate. The main aim of this
intervention is to prevent obesity from the people of Australia. It examines the experience of
funding and managing the prevention of six obesity (community-based preventions). It also
focuses on identifying the lessons learned to prevent obesity disease from the Australian
people. According to my views Obesity can be defined as the complex disorder that includes
an excessive amount of fat in the body. It increases the diseases risk as well as a health
problem for the people. It has been depicted that in the country Australia obesity is at an
increasing rate. So, it is necessary for the Australian people to attain knowledge regarding
obesity disease and cure it in an appropriate manner (Nichols, 2013). It mainly targets the
people who are suffering from obesity in Australia. This intervention impact the people
positively as it helps the people to attain knowledge about the problem of Obesity and cure it.
According to the health survey, it can be depicted that the people age 18 and more have
overweight.
In addition, the people are recruited for the intervention so that they can get cure from the
obesity Australia. Educating more and more people for curing from the diseases is quite will
be quite beneficial. In terms of recruitment process it includes analyzing the needs of hiring,

preparing job description, talent search, screening and short listing, interviewing, and
evaluation and offer of employment. With the help of this recruiting process the skilled
people will be hired that would help the Australian people to tackle the Obesity problem.
Moreover, this community-based intervention main target is the Australian people who are
suffering from Obesity. The knowledge is required by making the Australian people aware of
this disease especially the people who have overweight at their early age. On the basis of
research, Heart Foundation (2018), it has been depicted that community-based interventions
play an important role to respond to the increasing level of overweight and obesity in the
people of Australia. In the views of mine this increase in the demonstration programs is
helpful in implementing a successful implementation of decreasing the level of overweight
and obesity from the people.
The Australian government has invested so much to deal with obesity in Australia. On the
basis of the survey it can be analyzed that from the year 2009-2014 invested $72 million by
national partnership agreement in terms of healthy communities to prevent community-based
nutrition (Heart Foundation, 2018). Furthermore, an increase in the investment for preventing
Obesity community-based interventions is helpful in increasing the confidence in supporting
an initiative like this.

Critical analyze process that led planning, resourcing, and implementing of intervention
According to McMurray and Clendon (2015), in order to have community-based
intervention, it is essential for to have planned, resourcing, at last, implementing to prevent
Obesity from the Australian people. Various researchers such as Duerden and Witt (2012),
stated that health and safety interventions impact positively on the people. This intervention
plays an essential role in dealing with healthy issues by taking into consideration different
processes like planning, resourcing, and implementation. For developing an intervention to
prevent the people from Obesity firstly, it analyzes the intervention by planning as from
which disease most Australian people are suffering. It is described as below:
Planning
Based on the conception of health firstly in order to develop health programme the planning
is required by analyzing that which people are to be targeted to make aware of the health
programmes. Thus all the people requires health education program. At the time of planning
it indicates that the people of Australia have a lower quality of satisfaction in terms of health
(Meyers et al., 2012). Secondly, the health problems are identified such as most of the people
are suffering from obesity. Thus, each problem is demonstrated and planned to solve the
problem.

Resources
After the first step of planning intervention now second step is resources that are to be taken
into consideration. In terms of resources human, financial, organizational as well as
community resources the program that is available to direct towards doing the work. With the
help of resources, activities are performed that helps to increase the high level of health
promotion programs so that there may be decrease in the intervention like the problem of
obesity faced by the Australian people. Moreover, to plan promotional health programmes for
the people it is required to have various resources such as financial resources, material that
would be helpful in providing knowledge to the people about intervention so that they can
cure (Hills et al., 2015). It also includes staff that would be help the programmes to promote
health to large number of people so that they may care for their health and handle the
problems of health.
Innovation
Dimitropoulos and Gunasekera et al (2018), said that Innovation plays an important role in
developing health promotion programme for the benefit of people. The new techniques can
be innovated and suggesting advised the people to take care of their health by implementing
new techniques. With the help of innovation, the program management is improved. This

process of health programs helps to have effective innovation in terms of dealing with
different health problems and providing solution to the people for having good health.
Implementation
Hoffmann,et al (2013), describes fourth process is to implement certain things in the health
promotion programmes. It is necessary to implement health programs in terms of people
safety and security from the diseases. Thus for the effective health programs accurate timely
information system is required. In the contrast to this, while implementing health programs it
faces challenges such as consumption of time in which they had to identify which people are
to target. They also face challenge in recruiting, training as well as retaining the staff in term
of health care programs.
Evaluation of findings by determining limitations, success, barriers, and opportunities
On the basis of the above discussion, various findings are determined in terms of limitations,
success, barriers, and opportunities. It is described as below:
Success
The health care programmes of Australia gained success by providing knowledge to the
people regarding health benefits. Bethancourt et al (2012), said that these successful practices
implemented by the health education programmes make enhancement in the health of the

people. The practices taken into consideration depict change in the way the people take care
of their health. In terms of preventing the intervention of Obesity from the Australian people,
they suggest them to maintain their diet and do some exercise to remove the problem of
overweight.
Limitations
In the view of Roberts et al (2012), the health care intervention faces certain limitations that
include difficulty in analyzing reconciling approaches that assume the causation of ill-health
to be behavioral or social. Another limitation is the use of narrow techniques that do not
attain a high success rate. Chan and Perry (2012), determines other limitations such as
implementation of different advanced techniques in the health care programs would be
beneficial or not for the people.
Opportunities
The health care education program get opportunities to become active volunteer by planning
and organizing events in Australia. The event will promote health care for the people and
suggest them different ways to take care of their health (Langford et al., 2014).
Barriers

Different barriers that affected the intervention programme. Thus, due to the increase in the
competitors there is a barrier for this intervention as there are many competitors that can
affect its growth.
Evaluate potential for alternative that might grow original intervention
According to Brock and Abu-Rish et al (2013), change can be termed as the necessary
process to determine the large term of success. Healthcare changes are also necessary to
maintain all the things in an appropriate manner. Managing change is about handling the
process of complexity. Changes are necessary for the improvement in the systems of
organization or healthcare programmes. Spaulding (2013), said that in terms of health
education programs the manager can depict various changes such as a change in the policies,
change in technological advancements, shifted from non-profit to profit, affordable care act is
changing, data use, modernizing payment options and everywhere care. In terms of
technological advancement, this is the biggest change in healthcare programmes. They are
making changes in the face of control of diet so that the problem of obesity can be minimized
in the Australian people. Abu-Rish et al (2013), recommends that different exercises can be
suggested to the people to reduce the obesity problem. Another change is in the affordable

care act. It also depicts that there is a change in the rules on a monthly basis. Thus the people
should be aware of the changes in education health programmes.
Another change includes such as where data is used of the patients to get information
regarding their health problems. For example, data make changes in health care includes
prevention that promotes healthier behavior, smarter diagnoses and treatment, and faster
research and development. Dimick et al (2014), determines that modernizing different ways
such as online tips to the people that are suffering from different diseases like obesity. These
online tips provide advice to people in terms of health care programmes. Fourth change is
spreading care everywhere with the help of internet social sites such as facebook, Instagram,
and etc. the health care programmes spread care for the people through online resources. Due
to this technology the health care programs can care easily for the people. The programmes
would also enhance quality as well as safety standards in order to maintain the reputation of
health care programmes. It is essential to take actions on a regular basis that would be helpful
in gaining positive image and improvement in the health of the people.
In the views of Laranjo et al (2014), these alternatives are important to have successful health
care programmes in the country. These changes would be helpful in minimizing the health
problems for the people in a more effective way. The development in technology helps

healthcare to improve itself and provide benefits to the people in an efficient manner. In the
support of above author Dimick et al (2014), said that changes are the necessity of life
whether in the personal life of the people or in the organization or in the health care
programmes changes are mandatory. For attaining objective it is important to make changes
in the healthcare programmes (Reinhart et al., 2017). It has to care more for the people as
day by day there is an increase in the care of diseases. It provides the opportunity to focus
their marketing strategies on preventive care as well as wellness programs.
Summary
On the basis of above discussion, it can be determined that health education is an essential
concept that is required for the people to attain knowledge regarding this concept. With the
help of this concept, various leaning derived. It includes such as health education depicts
benefit for the people to avoid diseases as well as cure himself/herself of the diseases. In
terms of future perspective, it can be said that further, it should make improvements so that
all the diseases can easily overcome (Brooker et al., 2013).

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