Community Health Promotion: Report on Healthcare Strategies

This report delves into the critical aspects of community health promotion, emphasizing its role in enhancing the well-being of a given network through organized activities and programs. It underscores the importance of sustainable changes that optimize community health, focusing on preventing chronic diseases, injuries, and promoting behavioral health. The report highlights the significance of community involvement in achieving health equity and addressing basic needs beyond just treating illnesses. It explores how health promotion and disease prevention empower community members to make beneficial decisions, reduce health disparities, and improve the quality of life. The report also discusses the need for healthcare promotion even in communities with improved living standards, focusing on the promotion of health-related behaviors and systematic changes through laws, regulations, and environmental factors. It relates to the topics covered in class by emphasizing recommendations to enhance healthcare promotion within the community, incorporating essential actions for disease prevention, and enabling communities to control their health and improve their quality of life. The report references key literature, including Koelen, Van den Ban and Van den Ban (2004), and Navarro, Voetsch, Liburd, Giles, & Collins (2007), to support its arguments.

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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

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are mainly viewed from social psychology and health psychology perspectives. Community
healthcare promotion programs achieve this by empowering behavior change and actions
through increased knowledge and activities. Shifting from individual care and creating more
emphasis on community healthcare care can be achieved by making systematic changes through
laws, rules, regulations, organizational components and economic, social, as well as physical
environment which encourages and enables healthy choices. The frameworks for designing
health education and promotion programs should be able to widen the traditional scope of public
health and advance new vision for improving community health and wellbeing (Navarro,
Voetsch, Liburd, Giles, & Collins, 2007).
This article relates on the topics we have covered in class by creating emphasis on
recommendations that can be used to enhance healthcare promotion within the community. The
article incorporates the actions areas in health promotion and education which are essential in
preventing and reducing the escalation of diseases by improving the physical, biological, cultural
and social environment conditions, the major topics that have been discusses in class. It is
therefore important to note that the main aim of this article is to offer literature which can be
used to address health issues by effectively responding to the deteriorating or emerging health
conditions affecting public health with a view of enabling communities take control of their
health and improve their quality of life, which are some of the topics learnt in class focused on.

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References
Koelen, M. A., Van den Ban, A. W., & Van den Ban, A. W. (2004). Health education and health
promotion. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Navarro, A. M., Voetsch, K. P., Liburd, L. C., Giles, H. W., & Collins, J. L. (2007). Charting the
future of community health promotion: recommendations from the National Expert Panel
on Community Health Promotion. Preventing chronic disease, 4(3), A68-A68.