Health Education

Knowledge of health education helps people be healthy

                          "Health education is a process that informs, motivates and helps people to adopt and maintain healthy practices and lifestyles, advocates environment changes and needed to facilitate this goal and conducts, professional training and research to the same end."

                         Health education is a profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health. Health education can be defined as the principle by which individuals and groups of people learn to behave in a manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance, or restoration of health.

 In order to keep the environment healthy one should have the knowledge of health education and should be applied that knowledge in their life style.

                            However, as there are multiple definitions of health, there are also multiple definitions of health education. The "World Health Organization" defined Health Education as "comprising of consciously constructed opportunities for learning involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, including improving knowledge, and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health."