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Health Education

ByNetwork Learning

For an introduction to the discipline and an overview of activities at different levels of care, see our manual Principles and Practice of PHC (Section 4)

See our section on Behaviour Change, and our manual Health Education for Behaviour change

“Helping Health Workers Learn”, available from Hesperian Health Guides, provides hundreds of methods, aids, and learning strategies to make health education engaging and effective, encouraging community involvement through participatory education.

See our manual linking literacy to health: Good Health Begins at home: A guide for literacy tutors (also in Zulu)

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