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Health education

Meaning in public health & epidemiology, with examples

nounCore term

In public health & epidemiology, health education means: Planned learning activities that give people the knowledge, skills and motivation to make healthier choices, for example lessons, workshops, counselling or leaflets.

In Turkish: sağlık eğitimi

How it is used

A key tool of health promotion, but narrower: it informs and motivates, while health promotion also changes environments and policies. Health education is delivered in schools, clinics and workplaces and through the media.

Example sentences

  1. The nurses run health education sessions on breastfeeding for new mothers.

  2. Health education in schools covers hand hygiene, nutrition and dental care.

Common collocations

  • health education programme
  • school health education
  • deliver health education
  • health education materials
  • health promotionThe process of enabling people and communities to increase control over their health and improve it, through education, supportive environments, healthy policies and community action.
  • health literacyThe ability to find, understand, judge and use health information to make decisions about one's own health and health care.
  • behaviour changeThe process of people adopting healthier habits or giving up harmful ones, and the methods used to help them, such as information, support, incentives and changes to their surroundings.
  • community engagementWorking with communities as partners, so that local people help to identify problems and plan, deliver and evaluate the health programmes that affect them.

More terms: Health Promotion and Behaviour

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