Healthcare professionals as health educators

Which of the following are examples of healthcare professionals?

• Doctor

• Pilot

• Chef

• Dietician

Who is responsible for health promotion?

• Healthcare professionals

• Schools

• Governments

What is the responsibility of healthcare professionals when it comes to health education?

• To encourage an unhealthy lifestyle

• To encourage a healthy lifestyle

• To ignore a patients eating habits

• To tell the patient they are healthy even if they are not

By encouraging a healthy lifestyle, what does this lead to?

• Patients ignore their doctor

• Patients make unhealthy choices

• An increase in diabetes

• Patients make healthier choices

What happens if patients make healthier choices?

• They will spend more time in hospital

• They are less likely to become sick

• They are more likely to become sick

• They will have to take a lot of medication

Which of the following are benefits of patient education?

• More likely to make errors with medicaiton

• Reduced rick of preventable diseases

• Less patient independence

• Lower chance of needing to return to hospital