The most important significance of health education

Health education can make students master health knowledge in a planned, purposeful and organized way through various means, cultivate healthy lifestyles and behaviors beneficial to individuals, collectives and society, and promote the all-round development of students' physical and mental health, moral health and social adaptability. This is an indispensable part of all-round quality education for college students. Health education can enable students to establish a comprehensive concept of health, and establish a sense of giving priority to prevention and self-care. The health view of medical model holds that no disease is health. Through health education, students can understand health from the bio-psychological-social model, the difference between the new health concept and the traditional health concept, and the important role of social psychological factors in the occurrence, development and rehabilitation of diseases, so as to understand not only the basic requirements of health, but also the deeper health-physical and mental health, improve self-care ability and realize comprehensive physical and mental health. Before the disease appeared, people felt in good health and lacked the awareness of disease prevention. Once the disease occurs, it will often have an impact on life, study and work. Health education can change this attitude of seeking medical treatment for illness, and help students to establish the ideological understanding of prevention first. At the same time, it can also change the dependence of students on hospitals and doctors. It is clear that health is everyone's basic human right, and not only the government health department should be responsible for it, but also have the right and obligation to maintain their own physical and mental health, so as to strengthen self-care awareness and reduce and prevent diseases. Health education is also a necessary part of our comprehensive quality education for students and guiding their all-round development. The comprehensive quality of students includes moral quality, physical and mental health quality and cultural and professional quality, among which physical and mental quality is the basis of quality development in other aspects. Health education can enable students to establish a comprehensive health concept and self-care awareness, know their rights and responsibilities for their own health and life, form good living habits and behaviors from actions, and achieve the purpose of improving physical and mental quality. Health education can also help students to establish a correct outlook on life, values, patriotism and collectivism, cultivate their strong will, abide by the social moral code of conduct, and form a good moral quality to meet the needs of society. Through the correct psychological guidance and adjustment to students, health education enables them to take the initiative and learn to cooperate in the training of learning and improving their abilities, so as to mobilize students' learning enthusiasm to the maximum extent, develop students' intelligence, enable students to deal with learning and related problems in an optimal way, achieve the best learning effect, and achieve the best development of students' cultural quality and professional quality. The role of health education. Health education can effectively control the spread and prevalence of infectious diseases. Some serious infectious diseases are not only the result of microbial diseases, but also closely related to unhealthy lifestyles. Infectious diseases such as sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and dysentery are all directly related to unhealthy lifestyles. How to effectively prevent and control AIDS is a worldwide problem facing mankind. In fact, AIDS is a disease that human beings can effectively prevent through their own behavior changes. Therefore, it is an effective measure to spread prevention knowledge widely and intervene high-risk behaviors through health education. Even with AIDS vaccine, health education is still an indispensable and powerful weapon to prevent AIDS. In the prevention and treatment of schistosomiasis, malaria, hepatitis and other infectious diseases, it is also necessary to cooperate with human behavior changes in order to achieve good results. In the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, without the cooperation of health education, on the one hand, people can't take the initiative to prevent tuberculosis, on the other hand, people infected with tuberculosis don't know what symptoms need to think of tuberculosis, and they don't know how to take the initiative to go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis as soon as possible, so they can't find tuberculosis at an early stage. In addition, patients also need to accept the treatment principles of tuberculosis in order to cooperate with the treatment and improve the treatment effect. Especially in the fight against SARS in 2003, in addition to finding patients, isolating and treating them in time, protecting medical staff and adjusting the epidemic situation, it is very important to do a good job in health education for the masses, telling them the knowledge of SARS prevention and letting them know how to prevent SARS. If we can't arm the masses with scientific knowledge and guide them to change unhealthy behaviors, then no matter how well other work is done, it is difficult to achieve the follow-up control effect. Second, health education is the main means to prevent chronic non-communicable diseases. Unhealthy lifestyle is directly or indirectly related to many chronic non-communicable diseases, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes, malignant tumor, hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia. 45-47% of modern human diseases are related to lifestyle, and 60% of death factors are related to lifestyle. In the United States, unhealthy lifestyles account for 49-60% of the total causes of death, and in China, they account for 37.3%. Since China began to realize the strategic shift centered on economic construction in the early 1980s, China's economy has developed continuously, people's living standards have improved significantly, and the lifestyles of urban and rural people have changed rapidly. Among these lifestyle changes, there are some changes that are beneficial to health, and on the other hand, there are many lifestyle changes that are not conducive to health, such as too fine food; The intake of oil greatly exceeds the need of human body; Decreased physical activity; Increased mental stress; The consumption of tobacco and alcohol has increased ... and these unhealthy lifestyles have led to an increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases in China. Health education is the only way to prevent and control chronic non-communicable diseases and reduce the damage of chronic diseases to people's health. Through extensive health education, help people understand health knowledge, establish health concepts and establish a healthy lifestyle, so as to effectively prevent, reduce or delay the occurrence of chronic non-communicable diseases.