Importance and Need of Health Education

Everybody wants to live being healthy. We should always try to acquire good health. Sometimes, people have to loose their lives due to minor mistakes knowingly. We have often heard that people have to live like a burden to their family and society because of illness. Therefore, it is very essential that people have to be conscious about their health. But most of the people may not have the knowledge of the basic principles of being healthy. Health education teaches various ways of staying healthy. We may sometime see our neighbors doing unhealthy practices knowingly or unknowingly. Health education helps to bring changes in their behavior by providing right guidelines and changing their views. So, we will be able to improve our bad habit and attain good health and by changing such behavior and we will be able to live healthy life. We could have overcome these problems if we could have been little cautious, but because of lack of knowledge, bad traditional practices, and mere beliefs, we invite all those diseases. Most of the people have learnt that the diseases are not caused by the curse of the gods and goddess rather thy can be cared by taking medicine in time. Health education teaches people about the preventive measures to over-come those diseases, and be safe even if one is suffered from diseases. So, health education has become very essential as it teaches people to attain healthy life by imparting knowledge, skill, and attitude on health related matters.