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b) Measures to Improve Treatment Adherence
 
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AU : Nagpaul DR
TI : Holistic health education: Editorial.
SO : INDIAN J TB 1993, 40, 107-108.
DT : Per
AB :

The author emphasises the need to take a holistic approach to health education. In India, changes in the curricula of medical colleges have not gone far enough to change the prevalent focus on disease and the attitudes and practices that go with it. Some pragmatic social scientists have recognized that health education is needed, not only for the general public, but for health administrators and teachers of TB and chest diseases too, in order to change their behaviour. Therefore, they suggest that to generate additional felt need among the people, health education is needed only when the existing felt needs of the people have been met and there is surplus capacity left to meet the extra needs. This, then, is the need-based cutting edge of health education.

KEYWORDS: HEALTH EDUCATION; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; INDIA.
 
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