Health Education and Promotion in Egypt

Egypt has a dual disease burden of both preventable communicable and non-Communicable diseases. Nurses are responsible for acting as health educators and are "to use health promotion and health teaching methods that are appropriate to the situation and the patient's developmental level, learning needs, readiness, ability to learn, language preference, and culture". Nurse educators must have an understanding of health, health promotion, and health education, not just disease and illness prevention, for health promotion to become part of nursing. Nurses work in a variety of settings such as acute care, public health, school health, occupational, research, and education to mention a few. In some of these settings promoting health from a socio-ecological approach is the main focus but for others health promotion occurs at the individual level.This text cover areas such as Health profile of Egypt, Health promotion models,approaches, strategies Perspective and Principles.Health education goals, guidlines, content, Ethical and legal aspects of health education and planning for health education and health education methods and evaluation are also discussed in this text.