What is the essential difference between health promotion and health education?

Health promotion is a one-way dissemination of health knowledge, and its audience is extensive and lacks pertinence. Compared with health education, health promotion focuses on changing people's knowledge structure and attitude, but ignores the feedback and effect of information. Although health promotion also expects people's behavior to change, practice has proved that it is difficult to achieve the ideal goal of behavior change only by health promotion.

Health education is the function expansion and content deepening of health propaganda. Its educational goal is clear and targeted, and it pays attention to feedback information and behavior change of the educational object. However, health education is inseparable from health promotion, and health education must take health promotion as an important means to achieve specific health behavior goals. At present, social propaganda is still an important part of health education. It can be seen that health promotion is an important content and means of health education, and health education is a part of the whole health cause and a part of the "great health" system project to create a healthy social environment.