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Descriptor English: Health Education
Descriptor Spanish: Educación en Salud
Descriptor educación en salud
Entry term(s) educación para la salud
educación para la salud comunitaria
educación sanitaria
enseñanza comunitaria en salud
enseñanza en salud de la comunidad
enseñanza para la salud
Scope note: Educación que aumenta la concienciación e influye favorablemente sobre las actitudes y conocimientos relacionados con la mejora de la salud tanto individual como comunitaria.
Descriptor Portuguese: Educação em Saúde
Descriptor French: Éducation pour la santé
Entry term(s): Community Health Education
Education, Community Health
Education, Health
Health Education, Community
Tree number(s): I02.233.332
N02.421.726.407
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006266
Scope note: Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis.
Annotation: educ of general public or individuals; educ of patients in & outside hosp = PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Entry Version: HEALTH EDUC
Related: Health Promotion MeSH
DeCS ID: 28480
Unique ID: D006266
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2015/06/26
Health Education - Preferred
Concept UI M0009831
Scope note Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis.
Preferred term Health Education
Entry term(s) Education, Health
Community Health Education - Narrower
Concept UI M0009830
Preferred term Community Health Education
Entry term(s) Education, Community Health
Health Education, Community



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