Health education

Health education (also health education or health pedagogy ) refers to the imparting of health-related knowledge, skills and behavior by designated specialists.

Health education measures are u. a. offered by universities , adult education centers , but also by health insurance companies and other institutions in the form of lectures, lectures, seminars or courses. At universities, they form an integral part of the scientific sports teacher training or traffic education and are reflected in the corresponding curricula . Since a change in behavior that is harmful to health can hardly be achieved through knowledge formation alone, the importance of one-sided cognitive education in favor of complex approaches is decreasing. Today, health education is primarily embedded in pedagogy and the structures of health-related subjects. The Federal Prevention Act, which is currently being worked on, is intended to improve the possibilities for implementing and financing health education measures .

See also

• Health promotion
• Health literacy

literature

• Günter Henner (Ed.): Sources for the history of health education. 2500 years of health promotion in texts and images. A scientific reader. Würzburg 1998 (= sources on the history of health policy. 20).