Health education is carried out through purposeful, planned, organized and systematic educational activities. The core of health education is to actively educate people to establish health awareness, urge people to consciously adopt healthy behaviors and lifestyles, eliminate or reduce risk factors affecting health, prevent diseases, promote health and improve quality of life.
Health education also provides knowledge, skills and services necessary to change behavior, and urges people to make rational use of these services to achieve the purpose of disease prevention, disease treatment and rehabilitation.
Second, health promotion.
In 1995, nen horizons in health, an important document published by the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, pointed out that "health promotion means that individuals take measures together with their families, communities and countries to encourage healthy behaviors and enhance people's ability to improve and deal with their own health problems." Lawrence. Professor Green's Significance of Health Promotion "Health promotion includes health education and the integration of relevant policies, regulations and organizations that can promote behavior and environmental health changes."
The above definition shows that health education plays a leading role in health promotion, not only because health education plays an important role in promoting individual behavior changes, but also in stimulating exams, collecting political will to expand health education on large websites, promoting public participation and seeking comprehensive support from society, and promoting the formation of health promotion atmosphere. Without health education, health promotion cannot be implemented. However, without strong social, political, economic and environmental support, it is impossible to achieve lasting health education and health promotion.