1. Purpose and focus: The purpose of health education is to help people develop healthy behaviors and lifestyles, and ultimately improve people's health. It focuses on improving people's health literacy and helping people master health knowledge and skills. The purpose of health communication is to transmit, share and exchange health-related information and emotions, and its focus is on the transmission of information and the exchange of emotions, rather than directly changing people's behavior.

2. Executor: Health education is usually implemented by doctors, nurses, nutritionists and other medical and health professionals. They adopt specific methods for specific groups and carry out systematic education activities with the goal of improving health-related behaviors. Health communication practitioners are more extensive, including medical and health professionals, mass media, volunteer teams and so on. They transmit and exchange health information in various ways.

3. Strategies and methods: The main strategies and methods of health education include teaching, training, guidance, training, cultivation and behavioral intervention, with emphasis on imparting knowledge and skills. The main strategies and methods of health communication are the transmission, sharing and communication of health information, with emphasis on information communication and emotional communication.

In health communication activities, the information people receive may lead them to adopt healthier behaviors, but this change is not directly caused by health education. Generally speaking, health education is a more direct and systematic way to transmit health knowledge and skills, and health communication is a broader concept, covering all information and emotional communication activities about health.