Health education is the process where people learn how to take care about their own and the others’ health and especially to make decisions favouring good health. From among many of acting standards in a healthcare prevention for students in education environment, health education takes an advantage as a essential part of health promotion. The First International Conference in Ottawa (1986), where Ottawa Agreement was signed, emphasized healthcare promotion as a process allowing people to increase keeping control of their health condition and indicated health education as the basic for health process.

Aim. The main goal of the study focused on school nurses in Lublin County was the assessment of one of the chosen standards, enforced in preventable healthcare for kids and students, namely in health education.

Materials and methods. There were 413 school nurses involved in the research, which accounted for around 90% of the total number of nurses who realised preventable healthcare system for kids and teens. The assessment included such factors as the scope of research, subject matters, and different forms of health education.

Results. The results of the survey research indicated that the health education was enforced under the frames of National Health Education Program, while making the screening tests, ambulatory advice or other medical treatments by school nurses as well as in cooperation with other health departments (Sanitary and Epidemiology Units) and consultations for a school teachers in health education. The range of performance included not only health education but subject matter as well. The research has brought much interesting information about the scope of research, subject matters, health education forms among Lublin Province pupils in all types of schools promoting or not promoting health. Lublin Province pupils together with Zachodniopomorskie and Lubuskie Province confi rmed to a highest degree (90%) their educational training activity, performed by school nurses (data from Institute of Mother and Child, 2007). Well enforced education standard improved the quality of the prophylactic healthcare provided to pupils attending to schools in Lublin Province.

Conclusion. Health education is not only knowledge transfer. According to other research, obtaining of appropriate knowledge, about health in this case, does not affect automatically changes in human behaviour. Health education goals are more complicated and their hierarchy depends on individual needs of a young person and environmental infl uence. Health and education are closely related fi elds. Investing in health, especially in the youth health, brings socio-economic benefi ts in the country as a whole. Healthy children assimilate knowledge better, and people with higher education level live longer with better quality of life as well