Health education.

Abstract

TInS is the first occasion that the Royal Sanitary Institute Congress has held a session ~ on Health Education-a testimony to the growing influence and importance of the subject. I feel honoured, as a layman, to have the privilege of presiding. The conception of Medicine, like that of all our social services, is expanding. With the rapidity of transport and our increasing interdependence the problems of the various countries can seldom be dealt with in isolation. The smallpox of India today may be the epidemic of London in the matter of a few days. The illiteracy and malnutrition of the Far East has rapid repercussions on our own economy. We condition our welfare services in the light of a World Health Organization. We would all agree that education and health generally go together-so before the true value of a health programme can be appreciated, there must be an understanding of its objects and methods.