IT IS not easy to define Health Education, indeed Tyser (1975) in a survey of Health Education in General Medical Practice, put forward the view that "a definition is neither desirable nor necessary, because health education is and must remain a loose description applied to a whole group of activities which can be readily understood irrespective of the precise meaning ascribed to health".
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