PROMOTING HEALTH. P1: explain three different approaches to health education. P2: explain two models of behaviour changes that have been used in recent national health education campaigns. M1: compare three different approaches to health education.

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BTEC HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE LEVEL 3: UNIT 20:-PROMOTION OF HEALTH EDUCATION

TUTOR: CHERYLL HALL

SETOR GBEKI

P1: explain three different approaches to health education.

P2: explain two models of behaviour changes that have been used in recent national health education campaigns.

M1: compare three different approaches to health education.

Introduction

Health education authorities use different approaches to promote health education. They use different ways such as social marketing like posters on busses and the marketing is based on the focusing on what people need help with and how to help them to stop their habits and also to help them know about the risks that they are putting themselves, in order to promote the health education criteria the authorities joined forces with big organisation like big super market managers and use the media networks in order to be able to pass information to the public of the illness and harm that can be caused and the risks that they can prevent by keeping safe and introducing a safer way of prevention. And indeed for all these to be possible the authorities needed the support of the public and so they use social-economic to get the public involved and participate in the promotion of a local organisation and network for them but only by attaining the right training.

However I will only be explaining three different approaches to Health Education-: Change 4 Life, Jaime Oliver’s school dinners and NHS.

P1: Change 4 life-: Eat well-Move more-live longer Change 4 life is part of the governments backed campaign website for children and grownups to navigate their way through easily, there are hyperlinks such as Dance 4 life, Walk for life, Small steps 4 life, Start 4 life which makes it easy to link with information that people might need to help them keep health or active. The hyperlinks also  takes you to a page of your choice and there are information for how to keep healthy in a sense of what to eat, activities you can do to keep healthy and what you can do to keep a healthy way of life  it also give the simplest was of how do all these things. The website offers a fun way for keep healthy and exercising, it has a action pack that helps people and give them ideas to start their activity they also have a pack for individuals and families, you can plan your walk using an interactive map on the computer it also includes quotes that make us think about our health like “The way we live nowadays means a lot of us, including our kids, have fallen into unhelpful habits. This means all of us need to make small changes to eat well, move more, and live longer” .The government paid famous people such as Diversity to promote part of their agenda like exercise where Diversity did a dance with some kids whilst travelling around Britain on buses with change 4 life posters on them. Change 4 life not only uses the web for its promotion of health eating and activities but also advertises by the use of animation on television that attracts the attention on kids and adults.

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Jaime Oliver’s school dinners-: Jaime Oliver school dinners is a part of the approach to health education  in schools in order to persuade people to eat healthy to prevent ill heath starting at the educational institutions and also putting food education back on the school curriculum where students are thought to cook healthy food . Jaime olive has a website that offers recipes to people who are interested in giving their children and themselves health food and also information to provide foods at school and packs launch to eat. The website also has a place where people can chat about the ...

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This is good descriptive essay but it is lacking in depth and research. The writer needs to research the campaigns that they discuss and give some background information. It would help for the merit work to look at different approaches to health promotion and discuss the application. This would greatly enhance the work. ***