The goal of health education is to give people more knowledge and experiences of different things affecting their health and work ability. With more information and experiences people can better make choices that may affect their whole life.

To target and plan health education and instructions better, we can use interviews, questionaries, physiotherapy assessment, assesment of work place/ ergonomics etc. Health education can be given to an individual person or a bigger group of people.

The issues can be for example health promotion, preventing and rehabilitating musculoskeletal disorders, exercising, ways to improve work ability etc.

Health education doesn´t have to be a boring thing- it should be everybody´s right to know how to improve the quality of life!

06.06.2004