health education and health promotion

Health Education and Health Promotion

Health education and health promotion.

Editorial--health education and health promotion.

SIR As pointed out in your recent editorial (1) my contribution to the 1984 'controversy' defended not health promotion in all its many guises, but rather one particular interpretation of it (2). I was suggesting that there is a model of health promotion (elaborated upon elsewhere (3) which included health education at its best (no doubt of the type of which Gill Williams 'approves'), and where...

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...

Health Promotion and Critical Education

This paper discusses Health Promotion and Critical Education, and seeks to show the theoretical and conceptual interfaces between them. It indicates the transformation and supersession of different health education models and their relationships with the health-disease process and health promotion. Based on these distinct health education models, it points out the implications that the directio...

Health promotion and health education: theory and practice.

BACKGROUND Since health promotion and health education are developing concepts around the world, the purpose of this paper was to compare theory and practice, at certain point in time in various countries. METHODS Data were collected using the structured direct interview. We approached 16 participants at the XVI World Conference on Health Promotion and Education. The responses of 11 participa...