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Health Education - Methods
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Definition of 'Health Education'Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis. Common names: Health Education; Education, Health; Community Health Education; Health Education, Community; Education, Community Health |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
29 Sep 2009 
BACKGROUND: Vietnamese-American women underutilize breast cancer screening. DESIGN: An RCT was conducted comparing the effect of lay health workers (LHWs) and media education (ME) to ME alone on breast cancer screening among these women. ... Read more...
Impact of written and photographic instruction sheets on patient behavior after cataract surgery.
29 Sep 2009 PURPOSE: To evaluate the extent to which patients unnecessarily restrict activities of daily living after routine cataract surgery and to test interventions to increase activity. SETTING: Day treatment center, London, United Kingdom. METHODS: In ... Read more...
Experimental pretesting of hand-washing interventions in a natural setting.
29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVES: We pretested interventions derived from different domains of behavior change theory to determine their effectiveness at increasing hand washing with soap in a natural setting. METHODS: We installed wireless devices in highway service ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Health Education - Methods'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Breast cancer screening among Vietnamese Americans: a randomized controlled trial of lay health worker outreach. 29 Sep 2009
- Impact of written and photographic instruction sheets on patient behavior after cataract surgery. 29 Sep 2009
- Experimental pretesting of hand-washing interventions in a natural setting. 29 Sep 2009
- [Medicine 2.0: the stakes of participatory medicine] 7 Sep 2009
- Your Guide to Diet and Diabetes: web-based diabetes education tailored to Hispanics.
30 Aug 2009 - Focus on food: development of the Cooking with Kids experiential nutrition education curriculum. 30 Aug 2009
- Evaluating the effectiveness of swine flu contingency policies in healthcare education. 30 Aug 2009
- [Sensitizing the public to the importance of primary care] 30 Aug 2009
- Strategies for improving low health literacy. 30 Aug 2009
- Motivational intervention to reduce rapid subsequent births to adolescent mothers: a community-based randomized trial. 30 Aug 2009
- Greeting cards: a technique for communicating health messages. 30 Aug 2009
- Using the Colored Eco-Genetic Relationship Map with children. 30 Aug 2009
- The medicine wheel nutrition intervention: a diabetes education study with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. 30 Aug 2009
- Impact of multifamily psychoeducational psychotherapy in treating children aged 8 to 12 years with mood disorders. 30 Aug 2009
- Effectiveness of comprehensive health education combining lifestyle education and hot spa bathing for male white-collar employees: a randomized controlled trial with 1-year follow-up. 13 Aug 2009
- Development of mental health first aid guidelines for panic attacks: a Delphi study. 8 Aug 2009
- Communicating population health: print news media coverage of type 2 diabetes. 6 Aug 2009
- A smoking ban in public places increases the efficacy of bupropion and counseling on cessation outcomes at 1 year. 2 Aug 2009
- Mental health first aid for Indigenous Australians: using Delphi consensus studies to develop guidelines for culturally appropriate responses to mental health problems. Aug 2009
- Metabolic syndrome and the burden of cardiovascular disease in Caribbean Hispanic women living in northern Manhattan: a red flag for education. 30 Jul 2009
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Technical information about 'Health Education'
Definition: Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis.
Descriptor UI: D006266
Alternative terms: Health Education; Education, Health; Community Health Education; Health Education, Community; Education, Community Health;
Related Mesh Headings: Health Promotion;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;
Tree Number: I02.233.332; N02.421.143.827.407; N02.421.726.407;
Technical Notes: educ of general public or individuals; educ of patients in & outside hosp = PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC