The Economic Benefits of Health Education

Health education is an essential topic for contemporary society because it focuses on providing information to improve and sustain the health of the community. This type of education covers issues of broad interest, such as disease prevention, promoting a healthy lifestyle, the importance of nutrition and exercise, and stress reduction. Health education aims to raise awareness and build skills for healthy behaviour. This article aims to cover topics of interest to society such as a literature review to emphasize the importance of the concept of health education, a theoretical approach to the factors that influence health, in the idea of the possibility to act on them. The specialized literature shows a connection between education for health, health and economy, a connection that the authors proposed to highlight also by referring to the social determinants of health that we believe start, on the one hand, from children's education and, on the other on the other hand, from the economy. Health and education can be considered determinants of the economy and, implicitly, health education contributes to the balanced development of society. Most of the time, an educated child will be a healthy, employable adult; there is a possibility that not every healthy child will be educated, but will be able to work. Society is interested in people's labor force, without considering that a low standard of living and lack of health care will exhaust the labor force sooner.