Health education is a section of the preventive activities of bodies and institutions, as well as the state as a whole, aimed at hygienic training and education of the population in order to involve them in active participation in health protection. It is a branch of health and medical science that develops the theory and practice of improving health literacy.
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.
