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CASE 4 Meron is a Health Extension Practitioner, who frequently goes to the local school to conduct health education sessions. Whenever she goes to the school she carries her posters, leaflets, charts and other educational materials with her. After class she asks her students in a feedback session about how the session has gone. She is always happy with the feedback she is given.

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Question 1: One day Meron went to school to create awareness on sanitation, but on that day she did not carry her educational aids with her. At the end of the class the feedback from the students is not as good as previously.

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Question2: Assume that in one of the villages you are working in you observed more malaria cases than previously had occurred. You had gone to the area and observed that there is one place favourable for mosquitoes to breed. You now want to use health education to enable the community to destroy the mosquito breeding site. Who do you think you should talk to first about this problem?

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Question3: Why do you think that it is a good idea to include representatives of your target audience when you are planning your health education activities?

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Question4: Fatuma is a Health Extension Practitioner. While conducting a health education session on breastfeeding she said to her audience ‘I think HIV/AIDS might be transmitted from mother to child through breastfeeding’. What did you observe from the above scenario? How would you expect Fatuma to respond?

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Question5: Imagine that you are conducting a health education session in your local community. During your teaching you say ‘I think female genital mutilation (FGM) is harmful’ or ‘I think tobacco causes cancer’. What would be a better way of putting this?

Answer 1

Question 1: is not complete it is a statement only please give question.

Question 2:

The data and the cause identified should be informed to public health center.Disease control wing and the discussion can also be done with head of the village to rule out the issue.

Question 3:

Individuals, groups and communities are all targets for health education sessions and it is important to adapt the work for each type of audience. The objectives of health education include providing knowledge, developing positive attitudes towards health issues and promoting decision-making.since it would be better if we make use of the participation of target audience members.

Question 4:

The statement is doubt provoking to the audience. The health extension practitioner must give scientific explanation to her statement rather than putting forward statements like this.HIV transmission from mother to infant mostly occurs in utero, but HIV has been isolated in breast milk, implicating breast-feeding as a means of transmission. The main problem in estimating the risk of HIV transmission from breast milk stems from the inability to determine whether an infant is infected at birth. The actual risk of transmission of HIV through breast milk is unknown. It is thought to be more likely if a mother is newly infected with primary infection and may therefore be more infectious. Women who are less viraemic are thought to be less likely to transmit HIV through breast milk.

Question 5

To put forward an idea which is concretely backed up with scientific evidence we can use direct statements instead of doubt provoking starters like ' I think'.
Example :tobacco causes cancer.But instead of putting it directly forward you can reach to conclusion that tobacco has some ill effects and one of that is cancer.This can be done by asking questions to the known smokers in your audience regarding ill effects they have faced and try to back that up with scientific evidences testimonials using AV aids.