Categories of Health Education

As an extension of the lifestyle, health promotion, and health service goals of the 1974 Surgeon General`s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 15 major subareas of health were defined.

Health Education is the primary instrument for accomplishing these goals. Essentially all health education issues can be placed into or more of the following categories :

1. Personal health care

2. Nutrition ang growth

3. Body structure and function

4. Sex and family living

5. Safety and first aid

6. Prevention and conttrol of disease : a. Communicable, b. Chronic

7. Community health

8. Drug abuse and alcoholism

9. Smoking education

10. Mental health

11. Environmental health

12. Consumer health

13. Dental health

14. Occupational health/health careers

15. Death education

These categories are not in order of importance, nor are they considered as separete or unrelated areas of study; rather they are interdependent and interrelated to one another.(DeBiase et al. 1991)