instruction or training that encourages behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials through information about arthritis; facilitates the prevention of arthritis, frequently for those who are at risk for developing arthritis; also includes instruction or training that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge about arthritis on a personal or community basis; it also includes the training of medical personnel about arthritis for prevention or treatment programs, for this type of arthritis education postcoordinate with the appropriate health professional education term.