The connotation of community health education is constantly enriched and developed. Generally speaking, community health education refers to changing people's behavior, lifestyle and social influence through health education and environmental support, thus improving residents' health level and quality of life. It includes health education and various strategies, such as organization, policy and economic support, which can promote changes in behavior and environment.

First, health education.

Health education-planned, organized and systematic social education activities make people 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.

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.

Second, how to apply it

Establish and improve the health education and health promotion system to meet the needs of social development, and improve the quality of professional teams. Focusing on the central task of health work and the construction of new socialist countryside, based on the community, focusing on major health issues, key places and key groups, we will carry out various forms of health education and health promotion activities, popularize health knowledge, enhance people's health awareness and self-care ability, and promote the improvement of the health quality of the whole people.

(1) Under the leadership of governments at all levels, establish an operational mechanism of health education and health promotion with government responsibility, departmental cooperation, social mobilization, mass participation and legal guarantee.

(two) health administrative departments at all levels will be health education and health promotion into the target management and work plan, organize the implementation, supervision and assessment.

(3) Strengthen the capacity building of health education professional institutions and personnel. In 20 10, there were 3-5 professional technicians in county health education institutions, equipped with equipment to meet the needs of work. The training rate of health education and health promotion professionals is 100%.

(4) Establish and improve the health education network. By 20 10, there will be organizations and networks in communities, hospitals, schools, enterprises and institutions to directly carry out health education and health promotion for the target population.

(five) to ensure that the recurrent funds, health education and health promotion funds are not less than 3-5% of the local health expenditure in the current year.

(6) extensively carry out rural health education and health promotion, and actively promote the "National Health Promotion Action for Hundreds of Millions of Farmers". Send medicines and knowledge to farmers through various forms and channels. Strengthen health education and training for rural floating population and employees of township enterprises before employment. Combined with the construction of ecological and civilized villages and towns in rural areas, we will vigorously popularize the knowledge and technology of improving water and toilets in rural areas and improve rural drinking water and environmental sanitation. By 20 10, the awareness rate of basic health knowledge of rural residents in the pilot areas reached 60% respectively; The formation rate of health-related behaviors in the population reached 50% respectively.

(seven) to carry out health education and health promotion in urban communities, actively promote the construction of "health promotion communities", and implement the "Guiding Opinions on Health Education and Health Promotion of Residential Buildings in Urban Communities". According to the main risk factors affecting health, comprehensive community intervention was carried out. By 20 10, the awareness rate of health knowledge and the formation rate of health behavior of urban residents will reach 80% and 60% respectively.

(8) All kinds of schools in urban and rural areas offer health education classes, carry out various forms of health education activities and strengthen health behavior education in accordance with the requirements of the Regulations on School Health Work and relevant regulations, focusing on mental health, tobacco control, environmental protection, staying away from drugs, and preventing AIDS and accidental injuries. Carry out health promotion activities in various schools. By 20 10, the awareness rate of health knowledge among primary and secondary school students will reach 90% in cities and 80% in rural areas. The formation rate of health behavior among primary and middle school students in urban and rural areas reached 70% and 60% respectively.

Health technicians have trained more than 90% of the basic theoretical knowledge of health education and health promotion, and actively carried out the activities of establishing health promotion hospitals.

(ten) targeted safety and health training for managers and workers of industrial and mining enterprises.

(eleven) health education and health promotion in public places. In accordance with the "Regulations on Health Management in Public Places" and related regulations, supervise and guide the business units in public places to carry out health knowledge training and retraining for employees, and take up their posts after passing the examination. Carry out health science popularization in various public places. No smoking, obvious safety signs, smooth fire evacuation routes, perfect emergency measures, and actively create a healthy environment.

(twelve) actively carry out tobacco control education. Strengthen the popularization of knowledge about tobacco hazards, carry out smoking behavior intervention, and reduce the smoking rate. Actively carry out activities to create smoke-free units and smoke-free families. By 20 10, 70% of primary and secondary schools and 80% of hospitals will become smoke-free places, and the work of creating a city without tobacco advertisements will be carried out.