Health education is the process that informs, motivates about health related problems and aware people. Also it helps people to adopt and maintain healthy practices and life styles. According to WHO "Health education is any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes."
Health education aims at encouraging people to be healthy, to know how to stay healthy, to do what they can individually and collectively to maintain health and to seek help when needed. It is a very important topic necessary for all children, women and elderly people. It helps to inform people about different types of diseases, its causes, symptoms, preventive measures and promotion of health. Simply, only informing about health is not enough. They must be strongly motivated to change their habits and way of living styles. There are various medias of health education in which people will easily be informed and motivated about health related matters and can be able to implement in their daily life. Posters, pamphlets, radios, televisions, health museum, health exhibition, cassette players, newspapers and dramas are some of the medias of health education. By conducting health related programs and motivating people to participate in it, is also a best technique to provide health education. If there are no any medias, it won't be able to give health education and help people to adopt healthy behaviors in the society and country. Nowadays, the lesson on health education has been included in school curriculum to make children awarded and help to expand health knowledge in the family, community, society and country. It's also the major measures for achieving changes in health practices. Health education on brushing technique of teeth, diarrhea, asthma, hygiene, malaria control, environmental sanitation, nutrition etc. should be given to people time to time.
Implementation of health education will be very helpful to all people to spend a healthy and happy life. It plays a vital role in improving of the health situation of people living all around the world.