Community Health Promotion

Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH PROMOTION 1
Community Health Promotion
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COMMUNITY HEALTH PROMOTION 2
Community Health Promotion
The article is very educative and relevant in the current healthcare promotion and
education programs. Community health promotion is the way of improving and ensuring the
wellbeing of a given network by arranging exercises and projects which are intended to advance
the health results of the populace. The community healthcare promotion is for the purpose of
making sustainable changes that achieve the optimal health within the community. This is very
essential because it helps in preventing chronic diseases and unintended injuries, provide
behavioral health and tobacco prevention services as well as promoting maternal, child and youth
health. This is accomplished by driving cooperative changes in approach, frameworks and
situations which result into improved health and by imaginatively reacting with projects that
address the issues of the community. Also, community health promotion has a strong
commitment to the involvement of the community so as to achieve health equity. It is important
to note that community healthcare promotion is beyond just curing treating and preventing
injuries and illnesses but also address basic needs like food, shelter and clothing, promote
healthier lifestyles as well as create opportunities for the people so that they may improve their
lives. Health promotion and disease prevention empowers community members to make more
beneficial decisions in order to decrease their danger of maladies and inabilities. Community
healthcare promotion likewise can eliminate health incongruities, improve the personal
satisfaction and improve the accessibility of healthcare and related services. Community health
promotion do not only target communities that are experiencing poverty. According to Koelen,
Van den Ban and Van den Ban (2004), even communities whose living standards have improved
require healthcare promotion since improved living standards has caused new health problems.
Promoting community health in such populations enhances the health-related behaviors which