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What is health education and what is its core problem?
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 effect of education.

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.

Health education should start from primary school, and different classes offer different depths, so that students can form a complete social person with physical health, sound personality and mental health, and they are all-round developed workers.

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Educational purposes:

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.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-health education