Health education is the planned provision of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to adopt and maintain health-promoting behaviors and to use health services effectively. Grounded in behavioral and social theory, it targets determinants…
Health education is the planned provision of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to adopt and maintain health-promoting behaviors and to use health services effectively. Grounded in behavioral and social theory, it targets determinants of health literacy and self-efficacy across the life course, from adolescence to adulthood, and operates in schools, health facilities, workplaces, and community settings. Reproductive and sexual health education is a prominent domain, encompassing adolescent knowledge and service utilization, parent-adolescent and adolescent-parent communication on sexual and reproductive matters, and preventive practice in pregnancy. Other recurring foci include infection prevention and control among healthcare workers, tobacco control and awareness of second-hand smoke, and the prevention of overweight and obesity. Education also intersects with risk perception and attitudes during epidemics, with gender norms and discrimination, and with the integration of community knowledge into formal health systems. Evaluation typically employs knowledge-attitude-practice surveys and cross-sectional designs to measure awareness and behavioral correlates. The journal publishes peer-reviewed studies, largely from low- and middle-income settings, examining health knowledge, communication, behavior change, and the effectiveness of educational interventions across reproductive health, infection prevention, and non-communicable disease.
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 12 articles above have been cited 79 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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