Pendidikan Kesehatan Dan Aplikasinya di SD/MI

Health education is part of the overall efforts of health (promotive, preventive,  curative and rehabilitative) which focuses on efforts to increase healthy  living behaviors. In the concept of health education is an effort to inflence / encourage others (individuals, groups and communities) in order to behave  in a healthy life. Operationally in health education are all activities to  provide / improve the knowledge, attitudes and practices of communities in maintaining and improving health. Health education is synonymous  with health counseling because both of them are expected behavior changeoriented which is healthy behaviors, so it has the ability to recognize health problems himself, his family and his group in improving health. Health  education is a part of health promotion is a process to improve the ability  of communities to maintain and improve their health and not just relate  themselves to increase the knowledge, attitudes and practices of health, but  also increase or improve the environment (both physical and non-physical)  in order to maintain and improve health. Keywords: health education, school, environment .