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What is "health education"?
Health education is to promote people to consciously adopt healthy behaviors and lifestyles, eliminate or reduce risk factors that affect health, prevent diseases, promote health and improve the quality of life through planned, organized and systematic social education activities.

The core of health education is to educate people to establish health awareness, urge people to change unhealthy behavior lifestyle and develop good behavior lifestyle, so as to reduce or eliminate risk factors affecting health. Through health education, people can know which behaviors affect their health, and they can consciously choose a healthy lifestyle.

Educational purpose

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.