In community health, a specialized area of community health practice concerned with the process of influencing health-related social and behavioral change in human populations by predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing voluntary decisions conducive to health.
The process of teaching people, both school children and adults, to do things to improve their health, e.g. to take more exercise.
Persuasive methods used to encourage people (either individually or collectively) to adopt life styles that the educators believe will improve health and to reject habits regarded as harmful to health or likely to shorten life expectancy.
The process of educating the public to adopt a healthy lifestyle and abandon dangerous or unhealthy behaviour. With the rising cost of health care and the increasing amount of illness and injury resulting from preventable causes, health professionals, governments and the World Health Organization are strongly supporting more and better health education for everyone from schoolchildren to the elderly.
An educational process or program designed for the improvement and maintenance of health. It is directed to the general public, in contrast to a health education program organized for instructing persons who will become health educators.