TOPIC: HEALTH EDUCATIONπ BRIEF NOTES:πΉHealth education is a process that informs, motivates, and helps people adopt and maintain healthy practices and lifestyles. It advocates environmental changes as needed to facilitate this goal and conducts professional training and research to the same end.(NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PREVENTIVE MEDICINE IN USA)πDEFINITION OF HEALTH:Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (W.H.O. 1948)πDETERMINANTS OF HEALTH :πΉPublic Health Agency of Canada and the World Health Organization have identified 12 determinants of health:
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