Regular Approach

Health Hygiene & Sanitation

Lesson 48 : Health Education

Approaches To Health Education

Regular Approach (Managed Prevention)

Definition: Any government intervention, direct or indirect, designed to alter human behaviour, which may range from prohibition to imprisonment.

Aim : To change human behaviour and bring about improvement in health education through various laws.

Examples:

• Child marriage restraint act in India
• use of seat belts in western countries

Advantages:

• Simplest
• Quickest

Disadvantages:

• cause of disease cannot be eradicated
• laws cant be passed in areas of personal choice.
• e.g. to eat balance diet, not to smoke and not to drink alcohol

Beneficial in

• Emergency
• Control of epidemic
• Management of fairs and festivals