2. Health education has the characteristics of clear goals, two-way communication, focusing on feedback and behavior change effect, which is the deepening, scope expansion and function expansion of health promotion in mainland China.
3. Health promotion is an important means of health education, not the whole of health education. Health education needs to provide knowledge, skills and services necessary for behavior change, so as to promote behavior change of individuals, groups and society.
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The General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Carrying out Health Education Activities with the theme of "Healthy Teachers and Students, Healthy China", proposing to establish the concept of "Health First" in campuses and teachers and students all over the country, integrate health education into all aspects of school education and teaching, pay attention to the whole life cycle and health process, guide students to establish correct health concepts, form healthy behaviors and lifestyles, carry out quality education, and promote students' all-round development.
Schools at all levels should organically combine physical education with health, biology, social practice and other courses and disciplines, and innovate work measures according to school conditions. It is necessary to incorporate the health theme publicity day into the theme health education activities to make education entertaining.
The "Notice" requires deepening the supply-side reform of school health education, consolidating the foundation of health education, improving curriculum, teacher allocation, institutional guarantee and evaluation system, improving education and teaching methods, enriching the carrier forms of health education, meeting students' diversified health needs, and improving the quality of health education and students' health literacy.
Initiate the revision of the Regulations on School Health Work, formulate the Opinions on Further Strengthening and Improving School Health and Health Education, and improve school health education policies and systems.
Organize experts to develop teaching resources such as health education textbooks, teaching training courseware, teaching graphic materials, audio-visual products, increase the number of online open courses of national quality health education, and expand the supply of "Internet plus health education" content.
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