About Health Education
Health education has evolved into health promotion. Health education is any combination of learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary actions conducive to health. Health promotion is the combination of educational and environmental supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to health, thereby including health education. four other main developments are relevant: the need for planning (the PRECEDE–PROCEED model), the importance of evaluation, the use of social and behavioral science theories in the development of health promotion interventions (the Intervention Mapping process). Finally, recent developments in information technology (e.g., computer tailoring) and their effect on health promotion are presented.