Prevention of illness and health promotion

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CASE STUDY
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Prevention of illness and health promotion
According to the World Health Organisation (2019), prevention of illness is a specific
individual-based and population-based intervention for secondary and primary
prevention whose aim is minimizing the disease burden as well as the risk factors
associated with it.
On the other hand, WHO (2019) has defined health promotion as the process of
empowering individuals with the desire to increase the control they have on their
health together with its determinants via multisectoral action and health literacy
efforts to enhance behaviors which are healthy.
Prevention of illness and health promotion share a number of goals and there is a
significant overlap between these functions. Conceptually, disease prevention can be
characterized as the services which concentrate on healthcare sector as compare to
health promotion services that are dependent on intersectoral actions concerned with
social health determinants (WHO, 2019).
Health intervention: Health beliefs model, psychosocial intervention, tertiary
intervention, Maslow law and stress management
Health beliefs model
This has been defined as a psychological health behavior change model which was
created for purposes of explaining and predicting health-related behaviors specifically
in relation to the uptake of health services. This model helps in the promotion of
health in addition to preventing illness as it deals with prediction in the engagement of
health-related behaviors such as getting vaccination (Janz, & Becker, 1984). This
model would help Herbert by accounting for the personal differences in attitudes and
beliefs.