健康教育在西方发达国家已实行了近半个世纪，而在我国则长期被称之为卫生宣传教育。近年来，随着国人对健康教育事业认识的逐步加深，卫生宣传教育一词已逐渐被健康教育所取代。通过健康教育，可以使受教育者掌握有关的健康知识，选择有益于健康的行为和生活方式，树立正确的? Health education has been practiced in Western developed countries for nearly half a century, but in China it has long been known as health education. In recent years, as people’s understanding of health education has gradually deepened, the term health education has gradually been replaced by health education. Through health education, educators can acquire relevant health knowledge and choose health-behaving behaviors and lifestyles.