Health Education for Social Change: A Strategy for Public Health development in Nigeria

Health education is one of the means of implementing health promotion and disease prevention programs. Studies have shown that the global economic challenges, social and environmental factors are the causes of many diseases and behaviours that are associated to illnesses. Health education provides information to target population on a particular health topics, including health benefits and threats they faced, thereby providing tools to build capacity and support behavioural changes in an appropriate settings. This paper explains the strategies through which health education improves health development in Nigeria, importance of health education, community health education and government policy and the economic importance of health education. Health education can help to boost the economy by reducing healthcare spending and lost productivity due to preventable illness