Paper 4: Community Health Education
Marks 50
Hours 30
Objectives :
Enable students to
− Understand the need of community health education in India.
− Develop skills to plan community health education programme.
− Develop ability to analyse, appreciate and prepare communication messages related to health
practices for different target groups.
Unit Topics Hours
I Health Education in India 5
Definition and Concept of Health Education: Aims and Objectives, Methods of Health
Education, Principles of Health Education in India.
Role of a Health worker in community setting.
II Community Health 5
Concept, Background of community health.
Community Diagnosis and Health Action Plan.
Organising and Planning for Community health programme.
III Communication in Health Education and Training: 5
Messages, analysis of media messages: Information, Education, Communication (IEC).
The Process of change behaviour: Information, Motivation and Guidance
Principles of Health Education.
IV Education of Training Methodology: 5
Role of Professional Social Worker in the multi
disciplinary team.
V Planning for Health Education: 5
Goals, programme content, Choice of media specific to
target group, evaluation, and reports.
VI Agencies of Health Education: Formal and informal 5
