Basic Aims of Health Education
The sole responsibility for health education should not lie with the physician, the professional health-educator, the public health department, the school system, the media, or the individual.
The responsibility must be a shared one, each sector playing an integrated and mutually supportive part in facilitating change toward a desired behavior.
The basic aims of health education are to :
- Develop desirable health attitudes and habits
- Create and develop a proper health consciousness that can be applied to new learning situations
- Develop an understanding of what is necessary for maintaining a healthy body and mind
- Teach discrimination between reliable and unreliable health information
- Teach wise and judicious use of available health services
- Influence health attitudes and habits of future generations (DeBiase et al. 1991)
