Editorial: It is clear that what is called health education is usually propaganda rather than education  Propaganda and education are never the same thing  The former is nothing but an attempt to influence behavior through the repetition of simplistic slogans, whereas the latter never involves such a method  Though education does attempt to influence behavior, it does so by offering information in all its complexity, leaving it up to the individual to decide how to act on that information
Sadly, however, propaganda is much more successful than education
attempts to influence behavior solely by repeating simplistic slogans