Through information dissemination and behavioral intervention, help individuals and groups master health care knowledge, establish health concepts, and voluntarily adopt favorable health behaviors and lifestyles.
2, the purpose of health education:
Eliminate or reduce the risk factors affecting health, prevent diseases, promote health and improve the quality of life.
3, the meaning of health promotion:
Health promotion is a process to promote people to maintain and improve their own health, a strategy to coordinate the relationship between people and the environment, and a regulation of individual and social responsibilities for health.
4, health promotion involves five main areas of activity:
(1) Establish public policies to promote health: the significance of health promotion has gone beyond the scope of medical care, and decision makers at all levels of government and departments should put health issues on the agenda.
(2) Creating a healthy supporting environment: Health promotion must create a safe, satisfactory and pleasant living and working environment for people.
(3) Enhancing community capacity: Determining problems and needs is the starting point of community capacity building.
(4) Developing personal skills: By providing health information, education and helping people improve their function of making healthy choices, we can support the development of individuals and society.
(5) Adjusting the direction of health service: The responsibility of health service in health promotion is shared by individuals, social groups, health professionals, health departments, industrial and commercial institutions and the government.