COMMUNITY

HEALTH
WORKER

S.M.E. AROSO, RN
COMMUNITY HEALTH
WORKER
Is one who provides basic
community health care
services for promotion of
health, prevention of
illness, simple treatment
and rehabilitation.
 QUALITIES OF A HEALTH
WORKER
1. OPEN
- accepts need for planning and
decision relative to health care in a
particular situation not resistant to
change.
3. TACTFUL
- one who provides over an
assembly, meeting or discussion in
a subtle manner, does not
embarrass but gives constructive
 QUALITIES OF A HEALTH
WORKER
1. COORDINATOR
- brings into consonance or
harmony the community’s
health care activity.
3. OBJECTIVE
- unbiased and fair in decision

making.
6. GOOD LISTENER
- always available for the
participant to voice out their
sentiments and needs.
 QUALITIES OF A HEALTH
WORKER
1. EFFICIENT
- knowledgeable about everything to
his practice; has the
necessary skills expected
of him.
3. FLEXIBLE
- able to cope with different
situations.
5. CRITICAL THINKER
- decides what has been analyzed.
 QUALITIES OF A HEALTH
WORKER
1. CREATIVE
2. PATIENT
3. WITH SENSE OF HUMOR
- knows how to place a touch of
humor to keep audience
alive.
7. Possesses Genuine love for
people .
 FUNCTIONS OF A HEALTH
WORKER
1. Community Health Services
provides:
- Carries-out health services
contributing to the promotion of
health, prevention of illness, early
treatment of illness and hazards.
3. FACILITATOR
- helps plan a
comprehensive
health program with
the people.
 FUNCTIONS OF A HEALTH
WORKER
1. HEALTH COUNSELOR
- provides heath counseling including
emotional support to individual,
family, group and community.
3. CO-RESEARCHER
- provides the community with
stimulation necessary for a wider or
more complex study of problems.
 FUNCTIONS OF A HEALTH
WORKER
CO-RESEARCHER
- Enforces community to do prompt
and intelligent reporting of
epidemiologic in investigation of
diseases.
- Suggest areas that need research.
- Participates in planning for the study
and in formulating procedures.
- Assist in the collection of data; helps
interpret findings collectively, acts on
the results of research.
 FUNCTIONS OF A HEALTH
WORKER
1. MEMBER OF A TEAM
- In operating within the team, one
must be willing to listen as well as
to contribute,
to teach as well as to learn, to lead
as well as to follow, to share
authority as well as to work under
it.
- Helps make multiple services
which the family receives in the
 Health education

Health education
-is an any
combination of
learning process
designed to facilitate
voluntary adoptions of
behaviors conducive to
 Health education
- is an applied activity at all
levels of public work.
HEALTH EDUCATOR
- the one who improves
the health of the people by
employing various methods
or scientific procedures to
stimulate, arouse, and guide
people to healthy ways of
living.
 Health education
- The process of assisting
individuals, acting
separately or
collectively, to make
informed decisions
about affecting matters
affecting the personal
 As Health educator :
She takes into consideration this
aspects of health education:
a. Information – provision of
knowledge
b. Communication - exchange of
information.
c. Education – change in knowledge,
attitudes and skills.
 II. THE COMMUNITY
HEALTH WORKER AS A
HEALTH EDUCATOR
PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH
EDUCATION
3.Health education considers the

health status of the people.

 A. PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH
EDUCATION
2. Health education is learning.

LEARNING – is the purposeful

acquisition of new knowledge,
attitudes, behaviors, and skills.

Bloom’s Domains of Learming

a. Cogniive
b. Affective
c. Psychomotor
 A. PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH
EDUCATION
3. Health education involves motivation,
experience and change in conduct &
learning.
Motivation – addresses a person’s
desire or
willingness to learn.
a. Social motives
b. Task Mastery
c. Physical Motive
 THE COMMUNITY HEALTH
WORKER AS A HEALTH
EDUCATOR
1. Health education should be recognized as
the basic function of all health workers.
2. Health education takes place in the home,
school & community.
3. Health education is cooperative effort.
4. Health education meets the needs, interest
& problems of the people affected.
5. Health education is achieved by doing.
THE COMMUNITY HEALTH
WORKER ASA HEALTH
EDUCATOR

1. Health education is a slow

continuous process.
2. Health education makes use of
Supplementary aids & devices.
3. Health education utilizes
community resources.
4. Health education is a creative
process.
 THE COMMUNITY HEALTH
WORKER ASA HEALTH
EDUCATOR

14. Health education makes careful

evaluation of
the planning & implementation of
all health
education programs & activities.
 B. TRAITS & QUALITIES OF
A HEALTH EDUCATOR
1. Emotional stability & sound mental
health
2. Physical health & dynamic
personality
3. Above average intelligence
4. Creativity, imagination &
resourcefulness
5. Good grooming, poise, refinement
in voice & action
6. Courtesy, kindness, sympathy &
tact
7. Patience
B. TRAITS & QUALITIES OF
A HEALTH EDUCATOR
9. Firmness
10. Promptness, efficiency &
ability to recognize.
11. Positive & encouraging
attitude
12. Democratic leadership
13. Professional Status
 C. DOMAINS IN LEARNING
Accdg to BLOOM’S
TAXONOMY
I. COGNITIVE DOMAIN (knowledge)
Evaluation
Synthesis
Analysis
Appreciation
Comprehension
Knowledge
I. THE COGNITIVE DOMAIN

1. KNOWLEGDE – the ability to

remember the
information.
Ex. List, identify, indicate, describe
name quote
2. COMPREHENSION
– understand the information & can
explain in
their own words.
Ex: translate, transform,
summarize, illustrate,
I. THE COGNITIVE DOMAIN
3. APPLICATION – use knowledge to
solve real-
life problems.
• Ex: Apply, generalize, relate use,
employ, graph,
illustrate, exemplify, calculate,
calibrate
4. ANALYSIS – break down complex
information
into smaller parts and
relate
 A.THE COGNITIVE DOMAIN

5. SYNTHESIS – combine elements and

create
new information.
Ex: Produce, combine, modify,
constitute,
organize synthesize.
5. EVALUATION - make good
judgments and
decisions.
 C. DOMAINS IN
LEARNING
I. AFFECTIVE ( Emotions, Feelings
Values)
Receiving
Responding
Valuing
Organizing Values
Characterization
C. DOMAINS IN LEARNING
I. AFFECTIVE
- related to emotional responses to
tasks.
a. RECEIVING/ATTENDING
- being aware of or attend to
something in
a environment.
EX: Accept, differentiate, listen,
separate, select,share,
agree
b. RESPONDING
- become motivated to learn
and display a new behavior
as a result of an experience.
• Ex: Applaud, approve,
comply, follow, discuss
volunteer, practice spent time
with
 II. AFFECTIVE DOMAIN
c. VALUING
- become involve in or committed to
some experience.
Ex: Argue, debate, deny, help
support, protest
d. ORGANIZING VALUES
- integrate a new value into a
already existing set of values & give
it an proper priority.
Ex: Discuss, compare, formulate,
define,
 II. AFFECTIVE DOMAIN
e. CHARACTERIZING VALUE
- act in accordance with the value &
are firmly committed to it.
Ex: Change, avoid, complete,
manage resolve revise, resist,
require
 C. DOMAINS IN LEARNING
I. PSYCHOMOTOR ( Skills)
Reflex movements
Basic fundamental movement
Perceptual Skills
Physical Abilities
Skilled movements
 III. PSYCHOMOTOR
DOMAIN
a. REFLEX MOVEMENTS
- respond involuntary without
conscious
thought of the stimulus.
EX: Blink, stretch, relax, jerk,
straighten up
b. BASIC FUNDAMENTALS
- basic voluntary movements that
are directed
toward a particular purpose.
 III. PSYCHOMOTOR
DOMAIN
a. PERCEPTUALS ABILITIES
- uses their senses to guide their
skill efforts.
Ex: Follow, dodge, maintain,
identify, read,
write, balance, trace, paint,
print, pronounce
 III. PSYCHOMOTOR
DOMAIN
a. PHYSICAL ABILITIES
- develop general skills of
endurance, strength,
flexibility and agility.
Ex: hop, skip, lift, touch, hit, float
throw
e. SKILLED MOVEMENTS
- perform complex physical skills
with some
degree of proficiency.
 A. GUIDELINES on how to
become an effective
Health Education in
terms of:
D.1 Teaching
methodologies/strategies
(selection& use)
- In making decisions about
methodologies,
the health educator has to
choose specific
methods that will bring about
 A Technique/method should:
1. generate active participation of the
learner
2. provide quick feedback
3. facilitate transfer of learning to on-
the-job
situation
4. develop desirable behavioral pattern
5. motivates participants to improve
their
level of performance in class and
on the
 D2. Components of the
lesson plan
• Specific objectives of the lesson
Specific objectives of the lesson
• Appropriate motivation to capture the
students’ interest and maintain through
out the lesson.
• Development or outline of the lesson.
• Varied methods, including drill, questions,
and demonstration designed to keep the
lesson track.
• Varied materials and media to
supplement & clarify content.
• Medial and final summaries.
 3. Health education
teaching methods and
• Interviewing
strategies
• Counseling
• Lecture-discussion
• Open forum
• Workshop
• Case study
• Role play
• symposium
• group work-buzz session
 D.3. Health education
teaching methods and
strategies
• Community assembly
• Nominal group technique
• Laboratory training
• Use of IEC materials as leaflets,
brochure, comic hand outs, flyers
• Use of publication-articles in newspaper,
magazine, newsletters, journals
• Use of audio-visual aids, bulletin board,
billboards, posters, multimedia
 Teaching Strategies
A. Cognitive Learning
1. Lecture/ explanation/ description
3. Answering questions
4. Printed/Audiovisual materials
e.g. Pamplets, booklets, brochures
A. Affective & Cognitive Learning
2. One to One discussion
e.g. Teaching client’s at the
bedside, clinic, or in the home.
4. Discovery
5. Group Discussions
6. Role Playing
 Teaching Strategies
A. PSYCHOMOTOR Learning
> Demonstration
> Practice
D. Affective & Psychomotor
> Modeling
F. All Types of Learning
> Computer-assisted learning
programs
 Teaching Techniques
1. Lecture
- Traditional Presentation
2.Discussion
-often used to achieve objectives in
the
affective domain.
3.Role modeling
-provides member with model for
learning;
 Teaching Techniques
4. Positive reinforcement
-useful when teaching a group with
high anxiety

5. Demonstration and guided

practice
-effective for learning
psychomotor skills.
 Teaching Techniques
6. Simulation
- applies previously learned
knowledge; useful for
Psychomotor skills practice and
effective learning.
7. Role playing
-provides exploration of attitudes
and problem-solving skills.
 Teaching Techniques
8.Support groups
-highly effective for attitude and
behavioral change when used with
cognitive teaching.
9.Contracting
-written or verval; emphasizes
outcomes
 Teaching Techniques
10.Stress-reduction exercises
-anxiety increases cognitive and
effective learning.

11.Computer-assited instruction
-individualizes learning needs.
 Teaching Techniques
12. Team teaching
-enhances teaching by using
knowledge of more than one
teacher; also provides backup in case
of schedule conflicts for program
that have numerous sessions.