Health Education -- Hospital Setting Hospitals are one of the biggest providers for patient education on a healthy lifestyle. Education is normally offered to the community through hospitals in either two of the following ways: through community prevention disorder or disease. This offers the patient information on the condition, any limits they may now have, and how to readjust their lifestyle to stay as healthy as possible. For instance, a person who is recently told …
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…will be more qualified from an educational background to present information and programs to the hospital's patients and the community. Nurses will still participate in the community prevention and screening programs. "In the health care setting, the health educator functions as a team member with the physicians and nurses to increase the health of the patients" (Opportunities in Public Health Careers). This change may lead to a stronger relationship between health care and health education.