Author : Task Force on Consumer Health Education
Publisher : Aspen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Book Synopsis Promoting Health by : Task Force on Consumer Health Education
Download or read book Promoting Health written by Task Force on Consumer Health Education and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The report of the Task Force on Consumer Health Education provides guidelines to policy development in disease prevention, health promotion, and health education. The report emphasized the relation of health status to life style and the timeliness of the current challenge of consumer health education. Current programs, practices, and problems in health education are summarized and analyzed. Major themes of the report are: 1) individual behavior and life style, influenced by internal and external factors, play a major role in health, illness, disability, and premature death; 2) the individual is responsible for informed choices in health care and behavior change; 3) health education is multidisciplinary; 4) empirical research is needed to assess the long-term effects of health education; 5) substantial resources should be committed to health education; 6) the Federal Government has the responsibility to promote health education and assess the effects of national policy; and 7) health education must be rigorously researched and developed, adequately financed and throughly evaluated.