Health education is a process to help people understand and adopt healthy behaviors by providing them with information and knowledge about health. These behaviors can be about diet, exercise, disease prevention and so on.
Health promotion is achieved by encouraging and helping people to adopt these healthy behaviors. For example, in diet, health promotion may include providing nutritious food choices, encouraging regular exercise, and providing information and skills on how to choose and prepare healthy food.
Generally speaking, health promotion and health education constitute a comprehensive health strategy to improve people's health and quality of life.