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Health education

Introduction: Health education

Description of Health education

Health education: process by which individuals and groups learn to behave in a manner conducive to promotion, maintenance, or restoration of health.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Health education: educating patients and the public in areas of health concern; do not confuse with the education of health care personnel, such as physicians, dentists, etc, see appropriate terms under HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL EDUCATION; however, for the narrower terms, the training of medical personnel about those fields is included and may be postcoordinated with a health care personnel education term, ie neoplasm /cancer education may be postcoordinated with medical education.
Source: CRISP

Health education: Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis.
Source: MeSH 2007

Health education: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Health education:

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Terms Similar to Health education:

  • Community Health Education
  • Education, Health

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Broader terms for Health education

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The term Health education can be used for:

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The description of Health education may also be used for the following terms:

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Hierarchical classifications of Health education

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