不同宗教信仰对健康教育形式的影响

Influence of Different Religious Beliefs on the Form of Health Education

本文通过对中西方宗教信仰不同来分析各自应采用的健康教育形式和内容,认为健康教育要转变的是人们原有的健康信念与行为,而有待改变的东西又常常根植于传统文化或现代文化的沃土中。有效的健康教育项目应主动接纳文化的复杂多元性,认识到在一个特定的文化环境里寻求其适宜目标的必要性,因此,健康教育要成功实现这一转变,需要在原有文化的背景中培育出与新的健康信念和行为相适应的新文化环境。

Based on the analysis of the differences between beliefs in the Chinese society and the western society,the article holds that health education is to change people's previous health beliefs and behaviors which are usually situated in a traditional or modern culture background.Effective health education program should actively take up multicultural elements and pursue the appropriateness of its target in a specific cultural context.Accordingly,to achieve the change successfully,health education needs cultivate a new cultural environment to adapt well to the new health beliefs and behaviors based on the original cultural background.