The Journal of Health Literacy was indexed in the Scopus Database Saturday, 23 April 2022
"Journal of Health Literacy" wich published by Department of Health Education and Health Promotion has successfully completed the indexing process... Read More...
The 9th Health Education Congress and the 2nd Health Literacy Conference Saturday, 23 April 2022
The Health Education and Health Promotion Department of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences is proud to host the 9th National Congress on Health... Read More...
A Report on the 22nd International Conference on Health promotion (Brazil, 2016) Saturday, 23 April 2022
The international conference on health promotion is one of the most important conferences on health promotion, held every three years by the... Read More...
Health education is the part of healthcare, which focuses on the effects of behavioral factors on health. It initiates with healthy individuals, who are interested in the development of individual and social health criteria, helping these people expanding their lifestyles in ways that effect the improvement and maintaining of their health.Health education is a combination of learning experiences, which facilitates the voluntary acquisition of healthy behaviors, resulting in providing, preserving, and improving health. In addition, it integrates educational, structural, economical, and environmental supports to improve healthy behaviors. While health education is a responsibility of all healthcare personnel, it is rooted in a series of educational and behavioral, psychological, anthropological, social, communicative, medical and health information sciences, developing with the passing of time along with the developments made in the mentioned sciences.
Purpose of Department of Health Education and Promotion
Given the fact that the major purpose of any health process is promotion of public health and qualities of life of society members, promoting health education to fulfill these purposes is of paramount importance.
Therefore, the main goal of the department of health education and promotion is development and facilitation of educational and promotional health activities in the country to empower individuals to improve the health of themselves, as well as their families and society in line with Iran's 20-year vision plan and economic, political, social, and cultural macro plans of the country.
Department of health education and promotion has aimed to train graduated students, who are able to recognize and treat different hygiene issues, with the help of high capacity of faculty members, specialists, and enthusiasts of the field. Graduated students should also be able to improve the performance of ministry of health and treatment through appropriate research and providing reasonable and measurable solutions. They should also cooperate in programing and managing issues related to health and treatment system of the country. Transferring technologies and appropriate procedures to improve capabilities of health and treatment ministry, recognition of developmental factors and its spread through the world are some other missions of these individuals to improve health condition of a country.