Skills-Based health education
What is Skill-Based Health Education?
Skills-based health education is education that helps individuals develop the knowledge, attitudes, and especially skills needed to make and carry out positive health decisions. Skills-based health education goes beyond ensuring that people know things, to ensuring that people do things. As more and more health education programs are evaluated, there is increasing evidence that the skills-based approach to health education works, and that it is more effective than approaches that focus on knowledge alone.
Skills-based health education is education that helps individuals develop the knowledge, attitudes, and especially skills needed to make and carry out positive health decisions. Skills-based health education goes beyond ensuring that people know things, to ensuring that people do things. As more and more health education programs are evaluated, there is increasing evidence that the skills-based approach to health education works, and that it is more effective than approaches that focus on knowledge alone.
Knowledge refers to a range of information and the understanding thereof. To impart this knowledge, teachers may combine instruction on facts with an explanation of how these facts relate to one another.
Attitudes are personal biases, preferences, and subjective assessments that predispose one to act or respond in a predictable manner. Attitudes lead people to like or dislike something, or to consider things good or bad, important or unimportant, worth caring about or not worth caring about.
Skills are abilities that enable people to carry out specific behaviors. Skills include both life skills and other skills.