HEALTH education in the community, to which most effort has been directed so far in this country, has been concerned mainly with promoting general health and preventing disease. Programmes are usually specific in terms of the disease or problems and are directed at individuals as members of populations, groups or sub-groups, though it is the individual who must take the action suggested.
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