Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Health Education

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 thr…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 53× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2690-0904 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

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.

2018

Health Literacy and Osteoarthritis Self-Management

Marks RayCorresponding author
Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Program in Health Education, Columbia University, Teachers College, and School of Health and Professional Studies, Department of Health, Physical Education & Gerontological Studies and Services, City Univers
Exact topic Aging Research And Healthcare Cited by 21 doi:10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-18-2295

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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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ISSN 2690-0904).

Journal editorial board
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