First, the main content analysis of health literacy
The so-called health literacy refers to people's ability to obtain and understand health information and use it to maintain and promote their own health. The cultivation of health literacy is the key work of high school health education, and it is also an effective way to improve the health literacy level of parents and society. The continuous improvement of the national health literacy level in China is inseparable from the health education in senior high school. The improvement of public health literacy will enable people to scientifically understand the relationship between health and disease, and to some extent alleviate the current tense doctor-patient relationship in China. To explore the relationship between health education and health literacy, we must first understand the meaning of health literacy.
Health literacy is a relatively broad concept. The primary function of health literacy is to help people establish health awareness, pay attention to form correct living habits and safeguard the health of themselves and others. Health in health literacy is not only manifested as superficial physical health, but also mental health is a part of health literacy. In our life and study, we should treat life in a healthy way to avoid damaging our health due to unsanitary living habits. We should not only cultivate the consciousness of protecting our own health, but also cultivate the habits of maintaining the health of others, such as not spitting, not littering, protecting the environment and so on. When you are sick, you should try to reduce going out or contact with others, actively kill mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches and other pests that spread diseases, give timely assistance to the wounded and sick, and contact medical units. In addition, on the basis of maintaining a positive and optimistic attitude towards life, we should care about the mental health of others, avoid talking loudly in public places, be brave in helping people in trouble and actively help the disabled without discrimination.
In addition, mastering correct and sufficient health care knowledge is also an important part of health literacy. First of all, we should have correct habits of work and rest, try to avoid developing bad habits such as smoking, drinking and gambling, and refuse addictive drugs such as drugs, hypnotics and painkillers. Secondly, it is necessary to inject the vaccine in time, master the common sense of pulse measurement, blood pressure measurement and first aid, have a correct sense of seeking medical treatment if you are sick, and actively cooperate with doctors to participate in treatment. In addition, we should know how to distinguish the characteristics of epidemic diseases, stay away from the source of the disease consciously and reduce the chance of suffering from the disease.
Second, the important role of health education in improving the level of health literacy
Actively participating in this stage of health education and learning is the basic obligation of citizens and the learning task that high school students must complete. As one of China's basic national policies, health education is of great significance to improve the level of health literacy. As the successors of socialism, high school students can only improve their own health literacy by mastering enough health knowledge at the learning stage and contribute to the improvement of public health literacy when they integrate into society.
Senior high school health education is taught by teachers with professional technical level and teaching experience, and its curriculum is designed according to the characteristics of high school study and life, which is of great significance to improve the health literacy of senior high school students. Health literacy is a kind of consciousness, a habit, an attitude and a broad knowledge. High school students' health education can not only improve their own health literacy, but also make students who have mastered health knowledge become disseminators of health literacy when they return to China and participate in social activities, and spread the knowledge learned in health education courses to their parents or others, thus improving the health literacy level of the whole society. With the increasing demand for health care knowledge, health education in senior high school will indirectly bring some influence to the society, so that parents can find the right channels to acquire health knowledge and improve their health literacy. The improvement of citizens' health literacy level can effectively improve the health literacy level of the whole society, let more people learn and understand the correct health care knowledge, and develop correct living habits, medical treatment concepts and health care awareness.
Thirdly, effective strategies to improve health literacy through health education.
1, to improve the attention of the whole society to the cultivation of health literacy.
After entering the information age, the speed of information exchange is gradually accelerated, which directly improves people's work rhythm and life frequency. In busy daily work and life, it is difficult for people to take time out to learn health care knowledge and cultivate correct health literacy and living habits. But time is like water in a sponge, there is always a gap. In order to improve the level of health literacy through health education, we must pay more attention to health literacy, let more people actively participate in health education after work, improve the level of health knowledge, develop correct health awareness, and finally achieve the goal of improving people's health literacy.
2. Popularize health care knowledge through multiple channels.
The mastery of health care knowledge is an important reference to measure the level of health literacy. As a developing country, China has focused on economic development and infrastructure construction in recent years, but the workload of cultivating people's health literacy is insufficient. As a result, many people want to learn health care knowledge, because of the lack of scientific channels, the mastery of scientific health care knowledge is not systematic. Although the health education in senior high school has made some contributions to improving the health care awareness of the whole society, it is not enough for the urgent need of health care knowledge because of the narrow audience. Therefore, in order to establish a multi-channel health knowledge publicity and popularization channel, it is necessary not only to strengthen health knowledge publicity and education in educational institutions and community medical systems, but also to use Internet information sharing platforms such as WeChat and Weibo to expand the audience number of health knowledge publicity and education, meet people's demand for health knowledge acquisition and improve people's health literacy level.
3. Improve the professional level and quality of health educators.
Educational institutions and medical service institutions are the main health education departments, which play a great role in popularizing health education knowledge. Although the ranks of health education talents in educational institutions and medical service institutions in China are becoming more and more perfect, they are also developing in the direction of specialization and professionalization, but the professional and technical level of health education staff in some economically underdeveloped areas is still insufficient, which affects the quality of health education. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the quality of health education personnel training, optimize the quality of health education team construction in health education functional institutions, and ensure the specialization and professionalization of health education extension personnel, so as to improve the quality of health education publicity and lay a solid foundation for improving people's health literacy level.
To sum up, as people pay more and more attention to health literacy, we must grasp the relationship between health education and health literacy when carrying out health education, constantly improve the level of health education, improve the overall health literacy, and make contributions to socialist construction and development.