1. It provides information about health and hygiene: Health education provides information to the students and the teachers not only through book but also through charts, diagrams, films, models, slides etc regarding the functioning of the body, the rules of health and hygiene and precautionary measures to keep away diseases.
2. It helps in discovering physical defects: It helps in discovering physical defects of children and various abnormalities. It also suggests means to correct them if they are remediable.
3. It promotes desirable health habits: It establishes health habits and principles of living, which ensure abundant vigour and vitality. It develops health habits like need of fresh air, hygienic feeding and various class room habits.
4. It helps in maintaining norms of good health: Health education provides knowledge regarding hygienic environment. It provides information for adequate ventilation, proper temperature, good sanitation and all round cleanliness.
5. It promotes human relations: Health education promotes better human relations. It means developing good relations between school, home and community. It educates students to help in the treatment of health of their friends, relations, neighbours and the whole community.
6. It provides knowledge regarding prevention and control of diseases: Health education enables the children to take precautionary and preventive measures against contamination and spread of contagious diseases. It is health education which tells the students about good sanitation habits and the symptoms, causes, precautions and remedies of diseases.
7. It provides first aid training: Health education provides first aid training to children. This training is very essential in times of any sudden mishap. Lives can be saved if first aid is given in time.
