title: Guidelines for health education in maternal and child health.
abstract: Guidelines are presented for specifying objectives, identifying resources, selecting methods and evaluating the health education component for maternal and child health programmes. Examples of the application of the principles are integrated with the Guidelines. Diagnostic, planning, organizational, administrative and evaluative procedures are presented around a model of health education which emphasizes: a) the careful delineation of the health problem; b) the specification of behaviours influencing the health problem; c) setting priorities among target behaviours on the basis of their relative epidemiological importance and their changeability; and d) the identification of factors that predispose, enable and reinforce the behaviour.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services; D006266:Health Education; D006285:Health Planning; D006801:Humans; D008427:Maternal Health Services; D014481:United States