Information, education and training of the population for improving health knowledge and practices; public health and awareness campaigns.
a method of education which provides information to persuade people to change their life style and so improve their health.
A program of activities to promote health and provide information and training about hazardous substances in the environment. The purpose of health education is to reduce exposure, illness, or disease. Health education activities may be site-specific or national in focus. Information on diagnosis and treatment is made available for health care providers, and community activities are conducted to enable community members to prevent or mitigate health effects from exposure to hazardous substances.
A program of activities to promote health and provide information and training about hazardous substances in the environment that will result in the reduction of exposure, illness, or disease. This program--both national and site-specific in focus--includes diagnosis and treatment information for health care providers and activities in communities to enable them to prevent or mitigate the health effects from exposure to hazardous substances at hazardous waste sites.
Health education is not only concerned with the communication of information, but also with fostering the motivation, skills and confidence (self-efficacy) necessary to take action to improve health. Health education includes the communication of information concerning the underlying social, economic and environmental conditions impacting on health, as well as individual risk factors and risk behaviours and use of the health system.
a multidisciplinary practice concerned with designing, implementing and evaluating educational programmes that enable individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to play active roles in achieving, protecting and sustaining health. The process is comprised of a continuum of learning which enables people to voluntarily make decisions, modify behaviours, and change social conditions in ways that enhance health.
Providing information and teaching people how to behave safely and in a manner that promotes and maintains their health.
Any planned combination of learning experiences designed to predispose, enable, and reinforce voluntary behavior conducive to health in individuals, groups, or communities.[55
Health education is defined as the process by which individuals and groups of people learn to behave in a manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance or restoration of health.