Importance Of Motivation In Health Education

Health education is an important activity which is aiming to promote health and well-being among the population. Communities must participate and involved in the whole project, creating co-operation links with healthcare providers and practitioners, increasing program effectiveness. One of the most important things to do as a Healthcare administrator is the awareness of society, ensuring individuals ' involvement within the framework of actions. The decisive activation of the community’s members, not only as education receivers but also as "representatives" of the program and its main concept, obviously will be the indweller for each and everyone, acting as an inspiration aspect, ensuring the success of a healthcare program. However, to succeed,

Inspiration is a process which leads individuals to be mentally stimulated to act or feel, whilst motivation is the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way. In order to motivate someone, firstly, needs to be inspired by an idea or action. However, motivate citizens to follow an idea and act, is not always an easy task and needs a certain and accurate plan. Everybody acts and reacts differently in dissimilar stimuli thus motivation approaches should be aimed to find appropriate impulses that will lead to a greater and passionate

McClelland (1961, "The Achieving Society") , (4) Motivation-Hygiene Approach by Frederick Herzberg (1959, “The Motivation to Work”), Approach of motivation developed by Victor Vroom (1964), and (6) The reinforcement approach developed by B. F. Skinner. Maslow, McClelland, and Herzberg’s approaches focused on needs whilst Skinner and Vroom’s theories on outcomes. Equity theory proposes that people want to be treated fairly – equitably- Maslow proceeded in a prioritization of needs theory where individual’s needs evaluated in the following order; (1) psychological (breathing, food, water, sex, sleep etc, (2) safety (security) (3) Love/ Belonging (friendship, family, sexual intimacy) (4) esteem (confidence, achievement, respect of/by others) and (5) self actualization factors (morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts). Maslow thought that individuals must climb the levels of pyramid level by level. That means that if someone cannot sleep or breath (psychological factors) he will never be motivated for being