Health education presents information to target populations on particular health topics, including the health benefits/threats they face, and provides tools to build capacity and support behavior change in an appropriate setting.

Examples of health education activities include:

• Lectures
• Courses
• Seminars
• Webinars
• Workshops
• Classes

Characteristics of health education strategies include:

• Participation of the target population.
• Completion of a community needs assessment to identify community capacity, resources, priorities, and needs.
• Planned learning activities that increase participants’ knowledge and skills.
• Implementation of programs with integrated, well-planned curricula and materials that take place in a setting convenient for participants.
• Presentation of information with audiovisual and computer based supports such as slides and projectors, videos, books, CDs, posters, pictures, websites, or software programs.
• Ensuring proficiency of program staff, through training, to maintain fidelity to the program model.