Health Promotion - Enhancing Well-being

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Why is health promotion important?

A fundamental aim of any health system is to prevent disease and reduce ill health so that people remain as healthy as possible for as long as possible. The conditions in which we live, work and play influence our health behaviour and lifestyle choices. Health promotion is a broad term.

What is a health promotion program?

Health promotion programs aim to engage and empower individuals and communities to choose healthy behaviors, and make changes that reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases and other morbidities. Defined by the World Health Organization , health promotion: “enables people to increase control over their own health.

What are the basic strategies for health promotion?

The basic strategies for health promotion identified in the Ottawa Charter were: advocate (to boost the factors which encourage health), enable (allowing all people to achieve health equity) and mediate (through collaboration across all sectors).

What are health promotion and disease prevention programs?

Health promotion and disease prevention programs focus on keeping people healthy. Health promotion programs aim to engage and empower individuals and communities to choose healthy behaviors, and make changes that reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases and other morbidities. Defined by the World Health Organization , health promotion:

What is health promotion?

“Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.” Health Promotion Glossary, 1998 The first International Conference on Health Promotion was held in Ottawa in 1986, and was primarily a response to growing expectations for a new public health movement around the world.

How can health promotion help people build healthier lifestyles?

Research and case studies teach us that health promotion strategies can help people build healthier lifestyles and have a real impact on the factors that determine health. For example, by developing healthy environments, we can encourage people to be more active - even a 5% cut in physical inactivity across Victoria can save 1000 lives.

How effective are health promotion programs?

There is growing evidence worldwide of the benefits and effectiveness of investing in health promotion programs, that take a place-based and collaborative approach that align the work of all partners in local communities to deliver the best possible impacts for the community.

Which organisations are funded to deliver health promotion activities?

Agencies funded to deliver health promotion activities include health services, community health organisations and women's health organisations. There are resources available to guide organisations in how they undertake health promotion work.

What Is Health Promotion

1. https://www.who.int/health-topics/health-promotion
2. https://www.healthpromotion.org.au/our-profession/what-is-health-promotion
3. https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-health/health-promotion
4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK585681/
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_promotion
6. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/health-promotion/1/definition
7. https://www.bmj.com/content/330/7490/527
8. https://www.paho.org/en/topics/health-promotion

Health Promotion Information

1. https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/about-us/health-promotion
2. https://www.health.vic.gov.au/population-health-systems/health-promotion
3. https://healthwise.org.au/health-promotion/