The essence of health education is a purposeful, planned and organized educational activity, which aims to help and encourage people to establish a desire to improve their health, spread certain health knowledge, and urge people to consciously adopt healthy behaviors, develop a healthy lifestyle, create a healthy environment, and seek appropriate help when necessary, so as to protect and promote health and improve the quality of life.

Health is an ever-changing concept. In different historical periods, human beings have different understandings of health. Health is the relationship between 1 and 0. Some people compare health to "1" and all material wealth to 0. This is the relationship between 1 and 0. 0 is meaningful only when combined with 1. Once 1 is gone, all zeros are gone.

The Essence of Health Education

It is a purposeful, planned and organized educational activity, which aims to help and encourage people to establish a desire to improve their health, spread certain health knowledge, urge people to take healthy behaviors voluntarily, develop a healthy lifestyle, create a healthy environment, and seek appropriate help when necessary to protect and promote their health and improve their quality of life.

The 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.

Significance of health education

First, an important measure 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.

1, improve people's health and let individuals and groups achieve health goals;

2. Improve and maintain health;

3. Prevent the occurrence of abnormal deaths, diseases and disabilities;

4, improve interpersonal relationships, enhance people's self-care ability, make them get rid of superstition, abandon bad habits, develop good hygiene habits, and advocate a civilized, healthy and scientific lifestyle;

5. Strengthen the concept of health, so as to understand, support and advocate health policies and a healthy environment.