Role of Family in Health Education
disease, various activities and programs in
• The family plays a central role in developing and
maintaining attitudes, values, and behaviors
related to health promotion of its members.
• The family is responsible for providing basic
resources that support the promotion of health
in its members
The parents
• are key educator to provide health, nutrition,
sanitation, safety, education, socialization and
emotional life and
• seeking to stimulate all aspects of development
as physical, intellectual, emotional, social to
their children, because children early start to
learn from their family
Role of Family
• Families provide the support and conditions
needed for healthy living, prevention of disease
and opportunities for early diagnosis and
treatment to avert or delay complications.
• Interventions for health to be effective, must
necessarily take into account the social
determinants of health.
Importance of family health
• Knowing your family history can help you
reduce your risk of developing health problems.
• Family members share their genes, as well as
their environment, lifestyles, and habits
• Risks for diseases such as asthma, diabetes,
cancer, and heart disease also run in families.
• Family health provides, besides the cure of
prevention, rehabilitation, and health
promotion for all members of
families/households.
• It applies to each individual member of the
family, and to the family as a whole, considered
as a unit of health and a unit for care.
• The presence of family constitutes an important
source of psychological stability for the patient,
as well as a source of support for better
recovery, since it helps him to maintain a
contact with his house and his friends.
Family Health Promotion
• Family health promotion has been defined as
the process by which families work to improve
or maintain the physical, social, emotional, and
spiritual well-being of the family unit and its
members.
• Much of the emphasis has been placed on
health promotion in families in the childbearing
and childrearing years.
• The family plays a central role in developing and
maintaining attitudes, values, and behaviors
related to health promotion of its members.
• Further, the family is responsible for providing
basic resources that support the promotion of
health in its members.
Family in Nursing
• Family nursing is a part of the primary care
provided to patients of all ages, ranging from
infant to geriatric health.
• Family nurses often work with patients through
their whole life cycle. This helps foster a strong
relationship between health care provider and
patient.
• The concept of family health is central to the
achievement of the overall goals of health
promotion.
• Moreover, the strategies of health promotion
such as creating supportive environments,
equipping individuals with personal skills, and
strengthening community action are founded
on family health promotion (WHO, 2019)
• Doing a family assessment. It is vital to take
time to assess the family's structure and style in
order to formulate an effective teaching plan.
• Both the patient and family members need to
tell their story about the illness and the impact
it is having on their lives

Family-Centered Practice
• It focuses on children's safety and needs within
the context of their families and communities
and builds on families' strengths to achieve
optimal outcomes.
• Families are defined broadly to include birth,
blended, kinship, and foster and adoptive
families.