Health education is an educational activity and process to help individuals and groups master health care knowledge, establish health concepts and voluntarily adopt healthy behaviors and lifestyles through information dissemination and behavioral intervention. The core of health education is to help people establish healthy behaviors and lifestyles. It pursues the unity of "knowledge-belief-action", knowledge is the foundation, belief is the driving force and behavior is the goal.

The purpose of health education is to eliminate or reduce risk factors affecting health, prevent diseases, promote the collection and arrangement of health and medical education networks, and improve the quality of life. Health education is a complete process with planning, organization, system and evaluation. By evaluating the needs of health education objects, we put forward a scientific health education plan, set educational goals, determine corresponding strategies and methods, and scientifically evaluate health education activities and educational effects.

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Health education includes health education on public health issues such as food safety, occupational hygiene, radiation hygiene, environmental hygiene, drinking water hygiene, school hygiene and family planning. Carry out health education such as emergency handling of public health emergencies, disaster prevention and mitigation, and family first aid.

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, we can help people understand which behaviors affect their health and consciously choose healthy behaviors and lifestyles.