Health Promotion

Health Promotion
 Health promotion is the development of the personal, community, group,
and institutional, systemic and group strategies for the Improvement of
their health knowledge, skills, attitude, and behavior.
 To achieve a situation of absolute social, emotional and physical well-
being, a person or group should be in a position to recognize and
understand desires, to fulfill necessities, and to change or adapt to the
surrounding.
 Health promotion is not only the concerns of the health department but
extends past healthy daily life to well-being.
 Health promotion reduces premature deaths and improves the quality of
life for every person.
 The action taken to accelerate health promotion is through informing
people of what they can do in order to stay healthy.
 Health promotion activities are geared to upholding health and preventing
poor health instead of concentrating on people at risk for certain diseases.

Three key elements of
health promotion
Effective governance for health
 Policy makers from all government sectors are required in
health promotion in order to make health a fundamental
line of government policy.
 They should factor health consequences into every
decision they take, and highlight policies that preclude
people from developing illnesses and safeguard them
from injuries.
 These strategies should be strengthened by principles
that correspond to private department incentives with the
goals of public health.

Three key elements of health
promotion
Health literacy
It is important for people to acquire information, knowledge, and skills in
order to make healthy choices, for instance concerning the food they take
and healthcare services that they require.
They should have opportunities to be able to make those choices
They require to be guaranteed of an environment where people are able to
claim further policy activities to enhance their health further.
Healthy cities
Cities also play an important role in promoting good health.
At the urban level powerful governance and commitment is fundamental to
healthy municipal developing and boosting of preventive procedures in
primary and societies healthcare services.