Health education: through planned, organized and systematic social education activities, people can consciously adopt healthy behaviors and lifestyles, eliminate or reduce risk factors affecting health, prevent diseases, promote health, improve quality of life, and evaluate the educational effect. 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.

Through information dissemination and behavior intervention, help individuals and groups master health care knowledge, establish health concepts, and voluntarily adopt educational activities and processes conducive to healthy behaviors and lifestyles. It is the unity of changing the knowledge, concept and behavior of the educational object. The relationship between them is: knowledge is the foundation, belief is the driving force, and action is the goal. Its purpose is to eliminate or reduce the risk factors affecting health, prevent diseases, promote health and improve the quality of life.

Health promotion: refers to a social behavior and social strategy that uses administrative or organizational means to widely coordinate all relevant social departments, communities, families and individuals to fulfill their respective responsibilities for health and jointly safeguard and promote health. Health promotion is a process to promote people's ability to control the factors that affect their health and maintain and improve their health. This is a strategy to coordinate human beings and their environment, which stipulates the responsibility of individuals and society for health. It refers to intervening harmful behaviors and lifestyles through comprehensive means such as health education, organization, legislation, policy and economy, creating a good social and ecological environment and promoting human health.