Visual Analysis of Hot Spots and Trends in Early Childhood Health Education Research in China
By reviewing the research literature on early childhood health education in China,this paper summarizes the hot topics and trends in early childhood health education research.Furthermore,it clarifies the current problems in research on early childhood health education,and provides reference and inspiration for future research on early childhood health education.Using Citespace software,a statistical analysis was conducted on 327 articles related to early childhood health education published in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI)journal database from 1995 to 2023.The keywords and prominent words were visualized in a knowledge graph.The analysis shows that health education,children,pre-school and preschool children,health promotion,health literacy,current situation,influencing factors,sex education,mental health education and countermeasures are hot research topics.In the future,researchers can focus on research in areas such as"safety self-protection","healthy lifestyle",and"research on children's well-being".The number of publications and core author groups on early childhood health education research in China are gradually increasing and establishing.The theoretical exposition of early childhood sex education related research is relatively clear,the research subjects are diversified,and the research methods are also keeping up with the pace of the times.However,research related to early childhood health education still needs to be further strengthened,and researchers'research perspectives can be broadened,which can increase the cross disciplinary nature of research.
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