What is the core of health education activities?

The core of health education is to educate people to establish health awareness, urge people to change unhealthy behavior lifestyle and develop good behavior lifestyle, so as to reduce or eliminate risk factors affecting health.

Details are as follows:

Improve health knowledge and skills

Improve people's understanding of health knowledge, make them understand the basic laws of human physiological functions, master the knowledge of prevention and treatment of common diseases and the ability of first aid, and master the health knowledge and skills in life such as reasonable diet, appropriate exercise and psychological adjustment.

Change bad living habits

Through health education, people can realize the harm of bad living habits to their health and guide them to change bad habits and develop a good lifestyle.

Prevent diseases and promote health.

The ultimate goal of health education is to prevent diseases and promote health. Through the improvement of people's health literacy, we can achieve the effects of health care, treatment and rehabilitation, reduce the incidence and mortality of diseases and improve the quality of life.

Practical application of health education in different occasions

medical institution

Medical institutions are important places to publicize health knowledge and provide health services. Medical institutions can provide comprehensive health knowledge and skills to patients and their families by distributing health education publicity materials, holding health talks and conducting free clinics, and directly participate in patients' health management.

school

School education is one of the most basic methods of health education. Schools can provide students with necessary health knowledge and skills through classroom education and health education clubs, so that they can develop good eating, exercise and psychological habits, help students protect themselves and manage themselves, and cultivate students' health awareness and ability to develop healthy behaviors.

community

Community health promotion refers to spreading health information and knowledge to residents in community places through various channels, and guiding residents to develop good health habits and lifestyles.

Community health promotion can transmit health knowledge and skills to people who need medical services by setting up small health bulletin boards, carrying out publicity and consultation services and organizing health knowledge lectures, so as to prevent diseases and improve health.

enterprise and public institution

Enterprises and institutions are carriers directly responsible for employees' health. Enterprises and institutions can carry out health education through personal physical examination, daily work training and other channels to help employees understand their health status, develop good living habits, improve health literacy and prevent diseases.

The development direction of health education

National health education

With the implementation of medical and health reform and family planning policy, China's awareness of strengthening national health education is gradually improving. In the future, we should pay more attention to national health education, advocate national participation in health management with the support of the government, and improve people's health level and quality of life.