33^rd European Diabetes Congress

Diabetes: Health Education & Health Promotion

Health education is a combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals or communities improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes, by focusing on prevention. Diabetes education will reduce the costs that individuals, families, insurance companies, medical facilities, communities, the state, and the nation would spend on medical treatment.

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health, it moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards the wide range of environmental and social interventions.