Barriers and Obstacles in teaching Public Health

The barriers and obstacles to teaching and learning can never be out in the scenario, it is for us healthcare professionals to deal with the shortcomings and use these hindrances as our tool for an effective transmission of healthcare awareness. The factors that might hinder my ability to teach might be the lack of resources, absence of documentation system, and the relationship between me and the residents. The lack of resources is one thing to consider because you are not only providing educational materials but you have to allocate the budget. Next thing is the lack of documentation system, knowing that we're not familiar with the place, the relationship between me and the residents in that barangay might be at stake because they are may be following some rituals that we're not used to.

In considering the obstacles that affect the ability of the learner, the primary concern that I might encounter are the time, sickness, low-literacy and the overwhelming extent of health information. Time should be looked upon because not the whole day the residents would be devoted to listen what you teach. Maybe there are more important things that they need to attend to most especially with the sick people who are having lower attention span. Low-literacy can affect in a sense that your reading materials might be useless because some people can not be able to read as well as the taboos or the traditional thinking of the populace.

how about feeding programs that would lift residents
to listen? 

These barriers and obstacles might be appalling but if we can handle it based from our preparations, then we can control and overcome it. As to barriers to teaching, the ability to establish a relationship between them and to reach out to them is a good thing to start what you want them to know based from your acquired knowledge and skills. I must be time-efficient so that I can deliver all the information they need to know in a certain time. Our ability to make things right should be the bread and butter of all these problems because the low-literacy of the residents or what is customary for them are nothing if we can teach them effectively and efficiently.