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What is Health Education and Why is it important? Health education is the process of providing knowledge and skills to promote good health. It’s important because it empowers individuals to prevent illness, adopt healthy behaviors, and make informed decisions about their well-being.
Health education tends to be more effective when it is taught by qualified teachers, connects students to health services, engages parents and community partners, and fosters positive relationships between adolescents and adults who are important to them.
Health education plays a pivotal role in improving community well-being by promoting knowledge and healthy practices across all age groups, addressing a wide range of health issues from chronic diseases to mental health and influencing policy and economic outcomes.
The link between education to health and well-being is clear. Education develops the skills, values and attitudes that enable learners to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, make informed decisions, and engage in positive relationships with everyone around them. Poor health can have a detrimental effect on school attendance and academic performance.
This article describes a framework and empirical evidence to support the argument that educational programs and policies are crucial public health interventions. Concepts of education and health are developed and linked, and we review a wide range of empirical studies to clarify pathways of linkage and explore implications.
This info brief provides an overview of the importance of a quality health education and implementation guidance to help educators, staff and administrators create programs at their schools. Learn how the program supports the implementation of health education.
Health education programs and advocates can help change the way we approach healthcare by championing preventative care to minimize the risk of chronic illnesses, outpatient care, and infections. They can also help reverse some of the negative effects associated with addiction and aging.
Education has the power to transform the lives of children and young people, and the world around them. At UNESCO, inclusive and transformative education starts with healthy, happy and safe learners. Because children and young people who receive a good quality education are more likely to be healthy, and likewise those who are healthy are ...
To improve overall health literacy, i.e., “the capacity of individuals to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” [42], it is important to start with youth, when life-long health habits are first being formed.
CDC provides program guidance on how to increase student access to health education by encouraging schools to: Establish and implement skills-based health education courses; Develop a health education scope and sequence to identify student health behavior outcomes, knowledge and skills expectations across a diverse set of topic areas