Health education
Health Education
Health education (/hɛlθ ɛdʊˈkeɪʃən/) 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, as well as sexual and reproductive health education.
Etymology
The term "health education" can be traced back to the health promotion movement of the early 20th century, which aimed to improve health through education. The term "health" comes from the Old English word "hǣlth", which means "wholeness, a being whole, sound or well". The term "education" comes from the Latin word "educatio" which means "a breeding, a bringing up, a rearing".
Related Terms
- Public Health: The science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases.
- Health Promotion: The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.
- Preventive Healthcare: Measures taken for disease prevention, as opposed to disease treatment.
- Health Literacy: The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
- Healthcare Professional: An individual who provides preventive, curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to people, families or communities.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Health education
- Wikipedia's article - Health education
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