Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Public Health Education

Public health education is the discipline and practice of informing and empowering individuals, groups, and communities to adopt behaviours and conditions that protect and promote health. It encompasses the planning, delivery, and evaluation of programmes that raise awareness of disease prevention, health promotion,…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 34× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2693-1176 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Public health education is the discipline and practice of informing and empowering individuals, groups, and communities to adopt behaviours and conditions that protect and promote health. It encompasses the planning, delivery, and evaluation of programmes that raise awareness of disease prevention, health promotion, risk reduction, and healthy lifestyles, and that build the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to act on health information. Grounded in behavioural and social science, it employs strategies tailored to the culture, literacy, and circumstances of target populations, ranging from school- and community-based interventions to mass communication, and it addresses topics such as the prevention and control of communicable and parasitic diseases, vaccination, environmental and water-related hazards, tobacco control, sexual and reproductive health, and nutrition. Effective health education also seeks to improve access to and uptake of services, to counter misinformation, and to support self-management of chronic and genetic conditions. Its impact is assessed through changes in knowledge, behaviour, and ultimately health outcomes, and it operates as a core function of public health alongside policy, surveillance, and service delivery. Research relevant to this topic examines the design and effectiveness of educational and awareness interventions, the assessment of health knowledge and behaviour in different populations, and the role of education in preventing disease and promoting healthy, informed communities.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 34 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Public Health Education, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Global Health (ISSN 2693-1176).

Journal editorial board
Andrew Hall · United Kingdom Richard Bright · Australia Zhiqiang Feng · United Kingdom

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