Health education is to encourage people to consciously change unhealthy behaviors and related factors affecting health behaviors, eliminate or reduce risk factors affecting health, prevent diseases, promote health and improve quality of life through planned, organized and systematic social education activities.
The purpose and significance of health education
Purpose of health education: Health education is a systematic project to transform society and people's mental outlook. Its purpose is to publicize and popularize medical science and health care knowledge, emphasize hygiene, reduce diseases through education, change unsanitary customs and behaviors, enhance health awareness and self-care ability, choose behaviors and lifestyles that meet health requirements, and improve the physical and mental quality and health level of the whole nation. The ultimate goal of health education is to improve the quality of life of the target population.
The significance of health education: first, important measures to improve the health level of the whole nation; Second, the basic means to realize self-care; Third, it is an important guarantee to do a good job in various social health care work; The fourth is the need of socialist spiritual civilization construction.
Improve people's health, so that individuals and groups can achieve health goals; Improve and maintain health; Prevent the occurrence of abnormal death, disease and disability; Improve interpersonal relationships, enhance people's self-care ability, get rid of superstitions, abandon bad habits, develop good hygiene habits, and advocate a civilized, healthy and scientific lifestyle; Strengthen the concept of health, so as to understand, support and advocate health policy and healthy environment.
In "the State Council's Opinions on Implementing Healthy China Action" issued by the State Council on 20 19, it is clearly mentioned that the implementation of Healthy China Action and mental health promotion activities can not be ignored, and mental health is an important part of health. Through mental health education, consultation, treatment and crisis intervention, we will guide the public to relieve stress scientifically and correctly understand and deal with common mental disorders and psychological and behavioral problems. Improve the social psychological service network and strengthen the training of mental health talents. Strengthen the construction of mental health service and management network in primary and secondary schools (kindergartens). To this end, it is suggested that:
Schools should set up a leading group for mental health education. Establish mental health consultation stations and management networks for minors in provinces, cities, counties and townships, and set up secondary institutions in the education administrative departments at the same level to ensure that there are venues, equipment and working funds.
Vigorously carry out teacher training. Incorporate mental health education into the national training plan for primary and secondary school teachers, centrally and uniformly hire and train full-time psychological counseling teachers, and gradually implement certificates. Through professional training, more teachers can improve their understanding of the importance of mental health education and master the knowledge and skills of mental health education.
Offering psychological counseling courses in primary and secondary schools to further improve school mental health education. In education and teaching activities, primary and secondary schools should pay equal attention to education, prevention, consultation and treatment, adhere to prevention first, carry out all-round mental health education for students, teachers and parents in a planned, hierarchical and systematic way, and popularize psychological knowledge. Pay more attention to students with serious psychological problems, cooperate with professional institutions for early treatment, hold special lectures on "frustration education", "emotional self-regulation" and "interpersonal communication", and carry out targeted mental health education for minors to make them grow up healthily.