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Advocacy:

Refers to as someone who pleads the cause of another. In the nursing

profession, advocacy means preserving human dignity, promoting patient

equality, and providing freedom from suffering. It is also about ensuring that

patients have the right to make decisions about their own health.

Aims of Health Education:

 To provide information about health and its value.

 To maintain norms of good health.

 To take precautionary and preventive measures against communicable

diseases.

 To render assistance to the school going children an understanding of

the nature and purpose of health services and facilities.

 To develop and promote mental and emotional health.

 To develop a sense of civic responsibility.

Basic Principles of Health Education

o All health education should be need based.

o Health education should aim at change of behavior.

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