A Textbook of Foundations of Health Education and Primary Health Care

Foreword I am pleased to go through the book "Foundations of Health Education" written by Mr. Ratna Kumar Giri, Lecturer, Health Education at the Department of Community Medicine and Family Health of Maharajgunj Campus, Institute of Medicine.

With more than two decades of experience of teaching health education to students of different courses at the institute, Mr. Giri has all the credentials for writing such a book. I congratulate him for his efforts. Such an activity helps the students a great deal by making the necessary information available in a volume for which they would have to search many books and journals. At the same time, local publication will, hopefully make it available at a price which affordable to the students. Further, such locally produced books by the local practitioners would use local examples which will be contextual to our work and experience.

Quickly going through the book, I am impressed with the amount of information given in the book. I hope other expectation viz, lower cost will also be fulfilled. I hope Mr. Giri has used local illustration from his personal experience.

I hope the students of different programs for which the book is intended will find the book useful for their studies and work.

Preface This book has been written with a view to introducing students and other persons concerned with Health Education, Primary Health Care and Community Development. It acquaints them with basic theories and practical skills of Health Education; Primary Health Care: School Health Program; Communication, Community Development, Organization and Participations.

This book is primarily meant as a textbook for the students of Foundations of Health Education and Primary Health Care of various levels of training, particularly Health Assistant, Certificate in Pharmacy and Staff Nurse as well as BPH, BN and MBBS levels in the field of Medical Science. It also serves as a supplement material to Health Education, Primary Health Care, School Health Program.

The writer expresses thanks to the friends, students and authorities who have encouraged him to write this book. Special thanks go to Mr. Govinda Prasad Shrestha, the Chief of Ratna Pustak Bhandar, Kathmandu for the publication. Similarly Mr Bal Ram Adhikari and Chirinjivi Baral deserve special thanks for editing the book. Last but not the least, the writer is highly obliged to Prof. Dr. Ramesh Kanta Adhikari, the Dean of Institute of Medicine T.U. Kathmandu and Dr. Jay Bahadur Tandan, Executive Director of CTEVT, Bhaktapur for writing foreword.

I am solely responsible for any errors in information and language. Any suggestions from the users of this book will be highly appreciated and will be utilized to bring improvement in the next edition.

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