Introduction
The importance-changeability matrix discovered the most significant factors, such as Diet and Exercise, Periodical Medical Checkup, Smoking and Laws against Smoking at Public Places. Developing the matrix was the first step to plan the objectives and education strategy for the proposed Curriculum. Although all of the four factors contained in first quadrant of the matrix are important, the first factor i.e.
Diet and Exercise needs more attention than other three. Before explaining the reasons, it is better to connect the subject with a proverb which says “Prevention is better than cure”. The main objective of the program is to protect human beings from the claws of deadly diseases called Cancer, Diabetics Type 2 and Cardiovascular Diseases. As the proverb says taking some precautions from getting the diseases affected would be the best practice in life.
Therefore balance diet and routine exercise should be included in everybody’s life as the basic mantra. These two activities, being the most important preventing measures of diseases, should be added to the curriculum for the students. The education is the best way of propagating ideas effectively across the people. Like this way the other factors are also to be made a part of curriculum.
Plan Syllabus
Syllabus is mile stone of a curriculum. So the basic components of Community Health Program should be included in the Syllabus. The healthy diet habit and exercise practice are to be taught as per the following hierarchy.
- First of all, the pupils are to be taught the significance of being healthy.
- Then they are guided how to become a healthy person physically and mentally.
- What are the advantages of being healthy?
- The factors that are affecting adversely to our health.
- How to protect our health from the negative factors? Precautions.
If the foundations of the students are stable by learning the above mentioned sub-factors, there would not be any difficulty to continue the program till its application to the general people. The public awareness activities would automatically be implemented by the students themselves as the part of their curriculum.
The other three factors such as Periodical Medical Checkup, Smoking and Laws against Smoking at Public Places can be termed as the associate factors of main factor i.e. Diet and Exercise. Once the people aware about their health by observing balance diet and regular exercise, they are also engage them for the timely medical checkup. Regular exercise means they may abstain from smoking habits.
This way course hierarchy is to be developed so that continuity of study is maintained for the entire course. The inevitable part of this course program should be as much as practical exposure. The students are to be engaged with some practical projects wherein each student will have to counsel a section of people of that area. They should propagate the health awareness messages across the people and check how much it affects them. Checking includes observing people’s diet habits, exercise, and decrease in number of smoking people, etc.
The Final Touch
After forming a base for the Community Health Program by incorporating the above said points, the next step would be adding some more portions to the syllabus, like to make students conversant with the existing laws against improper smoking or smoking in public places. Students should pass it to the general people so that they must act accordingly avoiding any penalty or prosecution.
By adopting the above pattern of study, every student would be a model for general public by providing their noble services to the entire nation. This way the Community Health Program Curriculum would be a success initiative for the welfare of people.