Health education
Health education is the planned teaching and learning process that builds knowledge, skills, and motivation for informed health decisions.
Health literacy: The ability to find, understand, evaluate, and use information to make health decisions. Health education aims to strengthen the capacities captured by this concept.
Comprehensive school health education: A planned school curriculum covering health knowledge, skills, and behaviors across multiple topics. It is a structured form of health education for children and adolescents.
Health behavior: An action or pattern of action that affects an individual's health or the health of others. Educational goals often include changing or sustaining these actions.
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion: A 1986 World Health Organization charter that defined key strategies for health promotion. It placed personal skill development, including education, within a wider public-health framework.
Health communication: The study and practice of communicating information about health to individuals and communities. Communication can inform without necessarily including planned learning or skill development.
Health promotion: The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. Education is one means within this broader effort to improve health.
Sex education: Education about human sexuality, relationships, reproduction, and sexual health. It applies teaching methods to decisions about sexuality and reproductive health.
Health knowledge: Information and understanding about health, disease, prevention, and care. It is a central learning outcome, though knowledge alone may not change behavior.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: A public health school founded in 1916 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Its establishment reflects the growth of formal public-health training and education.
Health coaching: A collaborative process that supports individuals in setting and pursuing health-related goals. Coaching is individualized and goal-focused, while education may serve broader learning objectives.