Health Education

Author: Wu Jian
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This book consists of 17 chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the concepts, connotations, and development of health education and health promotion. Chapter 2 introduces the working methods of health education and health promotion—organization and management. Chapters 3–6 introduce the related disciplines of health education—behavior, communication, evaluation indicators, and cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit. Chapters 7–9 introduce the planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion. Chapters 10–13 introduce health promotion work in different settings (community, school, workplace, hospital). Chapters 14–17, through specific examples such as the prevention and control of hypertension, smoking, AIDS, and improving the quality of life for the elderly, elaborate on the important role of health education and health promotion in the control of chronic and acute diseases, as well as the intervention of risk factors.