Through information dissemination and behavioral intervention, help individuals and groups master health care knowledge, establish health concepts, and voluntarily adopt favorable health behaviors and lifestyles.
The purpose of health education:
Eliminate or reduce the risk factors affecting health, prevent diseases, promote health and improve the quality of life.
2, the meaning of health promotion:
Health promotion is a process to promote people to maintain and improve their own health, and it is a strategy and regulation to coordinate the relationship between human beings and their environment.
Define individual and social responsibilities for health.
1) Establish a public policy to promote health: the significance of health promotion has gone beyond the scope of medical care, and decision makers at all levels of government and departments should put health issues on the agenda.
2) Create a healthy supporting environment: Health promotion must create a safe, satisfactory and pleasant living and working environment for people.
3) Enhance the community's capacity: Identifying problems and needs is the starting point of community capacity building.
3. The relationship between health education and health promotion
Health education is the foundation and forerunner of health promotion;
Health education plays an important role in promoting behavior change;
Health education stimulates leaders' political will to expand health promotion, promotes people's active participation and promotes the atmosphere of health promotion;
Without health education, health promotion will be water without resources and trees without roots.