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    GUIDELINES IN CONDUCTION IN COMMUNITY HEALTH TEACHING

    1. Understand the Community What do you want the community


    to learn or achieve?
    • Assess Needs and Strengths:
    Conduct a thorough assessment • Develop Materials: Create
    to understand the health needs, educational materials that are
    strengths, and resources of the easy to understand and visually
    community. This includes appealing. Use a variety of formats
    gathering both quantitative and such as pamphlets, posters,
    qualitative data. videos, and interactive activities.

    • Cultural Sensitivity: Be aware of 4. Use Effective Teaching Methods


    and respect the cultural, social,
    • Interactive Techniques: Use
    and economic backgrounds of
    interactive teaching methods such
    community members. Tailor your
    as group discussions, role-playing,
    teaching methods to be culturally
    and hands-on activities to engage
    appropriate.
    participants and enhance learning.
    2. Engage the Community
    • Adapt to Learning Styles:
    • Community Involvement: Involve Recognize that people have
    community members in the different learning styles.
    planning and implementation of Incorporate visual, auditory, and
    health teaching activities. This kinesthetic elements into your
    fosters a sense of ownership and teaching.
    increases the likelihood of
    5. Communicate Clearly
    success.
    • Simple Language: Use simple,
    • Build Trust: Establish trust by
    clear language that is free of
    being transparent, consistent, and
    jargon. Ensure that your message
    respectful. Trust is crucial for
    is easily understood by all
    effective communication and
    community members.
    engagement.
    • Visual Aids: Use visual aids to
    3. Plan and Prepare
    reinforce your message. Pictures,
    • Set Clear Objectives: Define diagrams, and videos can help
    clear, achievable objectives for make complex information more
    your health teaching sessions. accessible.
    GUIDELINES IN CONDUCTION IN COMMUNITY HEALTH TEACHING

    6. Evaluate and Adapt • Build Capacity: Train local leaders


    and volunteers to continue health
    • Feedback: Collect feedback from
    education efforts, ensuring that
    participants to understand what
    the impact is sustained over time.
    worked well and what could be
    improved. Use this feedback to
    adapt and improve future
    References:
    sessions.
    1. Centers for Disease Control and
    • Measure Outcomes: Evaluate the Prevention. (2020). Community health
    effectiveness of your teaching by assessment and health improvement
    measuring changes in knowledge, planning. Retrieved
    from https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthga
    attitudes, and behaviors. This can
    teway/cha/plan.html
    help demonstrate the impact of
    your efforts. 2. World Health Organization.
    (2017). Health promotion and
    7. Address Barriers community participation. Retrieved
    from https://www.who.int/health-
    • Accessibility: Ensure that your topics/health-promotion
    teaching sessions are accessible
    3. National Institutes of Health.
    to all community members, (2018). Cultural respect. Retrieved
    including those with disabilities or from https://www.nih.gov/institutes-
    limited literacy skills. nih/nih-office-director/office-
    communications-public-liaison/clear-
    • Overcome Resistance: Be communication/cultural-respect
    prepared to address resistance or
    4. U.S. Department of Health and Human
    skepticism. Provide evidence- Services. (2019). Health literacy in
    based information and be patient healthy people 2030. Retrieved
    in addressing concerns. from https://health.gov/our-work/healthy-
    people/healthy-people-2030/health-
    8. Promote Sustainability literacy-healthy-people-2030

    • Empower the Community: 5. American Public Health Association.


    Empower community members to (2015). Community health workers.
    Retrieved
    take charge of their health by
    from https://www.apha.org/apha-
    providing them with the knowledge
    communities/member-
    and tools they need to make sections/community-health-worker.
    informed decisions.

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