Overview
Health education is the planned provision of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to make informed decisions and adopt behaviors that protect and improve health. As a core component of public health and health promotion, it operates through schools, clinics, community programs, and media, and it targets determinants of behavior such as awareness, perceived risk, self-efficacy, social influence, and access to services. Effective health education is tailored to the literacy, culture, and circumstances of its audience and is evaluated by its impact on knowledge, practices, and ultimately health outcomes. The peer-reviewed research in this area examines health-education and knowledge-and-practice interventions across populations, including community prevention and safety training, determinants of exclusive breastfeeding among mothers, reproductive-health knowledge and service utilization among adolescents, COVID-19 knowledge and preventive practice among pregnant women, harm-reduction program delivery within community-safety policy, health literacy in osteoarthritis self-management, adolescent-parent communication on sexual and reproductive health, factors associated with uncontrolled hypertension, and predictors of vaccine uptake among healthcare workers. Recurring themes include the assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and practices; the promotion of self-management and preventive behavior; the role of health literacy and communication; the targeting of reproductive, maternal, and adolescent health; and the design and evaluation of educational interventions to change behavior across community and clinical settings.
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 53 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2026 · Disability and Rehabilitation
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2025 · Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology
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Distribution of Arthritis Subtypes Among Adults With Arthritis in the United States, 2017–March 20202025 · Preventing Chronic Disease
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2025 · Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies
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2025 · BMC Public Health
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2025 · BMC Public Health
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2025 · Reproductive Health
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2025 · Health Science Reports
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