Health Promotion: Strategies for Improving Public Health and Wellbeing

This essay delves into the multifaceted realm of health promotion, emphasizing its crucial role in enhancing public health and overall wellbeing. It begins by defining health promotion and its significance in addressing chronic diseases like heart attack, diabetes, and mental disorders. The essay explores various health promotion strategies, including building healthy public policies, creating supportive environments, and strengthening community action. It highlights the importance of health education, risk detection, and behavioral changes in improving health outcomes. The essay focuses on the issue of smoking, examining its impact on health and society, and discusses strategies to combat smoking habits, such as awareness programs and taxation. It also touches upon the prevention paradox and the role of strong communities in supporting health planning and preventive measures. The essay underscores the significance of global initiatives and policies in reducing health inequalities and promoting healthy choices. It concludes by emphasizing the need for comprehensive approaches that address individual behavior, family environment, and public health goals to achieve effective health promotion.

HEALTH PROMOTION

Health is a state of complete social, physical and mental wellbeing and it is a basic
human right, essential to live a happy life. Maintaining health is a key part of everyone’s
daily life and it can be attained by the contribution of community as well as individual. Thus
positive changes in health will be good for the country growth. Hence to increase and
improve the health control, health promotion is used. Health promotion has been developed
for betterment and is a very important area of work across the globe. Various chronic diseases
like heart attack, diabetes, cancer, mental disorders, anxiety, depression and addiction to bad
habits are very expensive to treat. For making the community free from pain and reduce risks,
health promotion is used. This can be done by improving lifestyle of people which modifies
the risk of diseases.
As the population is growing rapidly with change of living patterns the health services
has also been changed. There are various advanced technologies used to improve the health
conditions of people in the community and make them aware about the health issues so that
people can improve their health conditions (Nutbeam, Harris & Wise, 2010). This can be
done by using health promotion strategies as health promotion showcase the path that needs
to be followed for betterment. These Health promotion strategies are used to overcome the
challenges faced by the members of society. Health promotion is not only beneficial for the
individual but it also improves the economic, political and community initiatives (Bell
&Williams, 2016). It also throws the light on health issues and shows why it is important to
take proper actions which in turn will decrease the health conditions of the society. As people
are following high standards of lifestyle thus they are seeking for better health needs and
suitable care experience. The health strategy is designed in a way so that services reach the
desired population and planners may improve the services to meet the needs of people.

People in society is still suffering from health inequalities to overcomes these problems, basic
principal are undertaken for betterment of health conditions (Conley & Durlak, 2017).
Health promotion is a very important component of public health. It can be defined as a
process to increase the control by enabling people to improve health. It is all about improving
health that is improving complete physical, mental and social wellbeing. Health promotion
takes steps to improve the conditions by focusing on individual to improve health determinate
(Mental healthassociation, 2016). Health Promotion has gained global attention, in the past
years as International conferences was held which leads to creation of Ottawa document. This
document is considered as a landmark document and is very influential in providing goals
and concepts of health promotion. These policies are still practised today. To achieve good
health various actions need to be taken like building healthy health policy, creating
supportive environment, strengthening community action, developing personal skills and
reorienting health services. Building health public policy not only protects health of
individual and community but make it easier for people to make healthy decisions (Ministry
of health, 2016). This is achieved by legislative regulations and organisational taxation. Also
the environment in which people live is directly related to their health. So health promotion
basically looks in places where people live, work or play by increasing the ability to make
healthy choices. Collective actions of community also play an important role to improve
health as community based organisation promotes people to eat healthy, run more and stay
fit. The health system used is traditional which focus on individual curative and treatment,
now a days holistic approach is used to strengthen protective factors by reducing risk factors
and improving health determinants (Lloyd-Jones, et.al , 2010).
It can also be said as a combination of educational and ecological, health education,
protection measures, risk detection which in turn enhances health. It supports to take
conductive actions of health. Various activities are built to improve personal and public

health through a combination of strategies including behavioural changes (Sreet, Gold &
manning, 2013).
Health promotion is basically achieved by making people aware about the better health
services provided by the government (Eldredge et.al, 2016). As there are many centres that
provide services to people, as government has opened many health centres closer to home for
comfort of the society. In short health services are made available for everyone so that no one
takes the health issues in a negligible way. Health promotion is used to reach to the target
population so that it results in better health outcomes. It reduces the gap between health
issues and diseases patterns by focusing on economic determinate (US Department of Health
and Human Services, 2011).
Health promotion can be achieved by encourage people to be a part of ‘health smart’ society,
this can be done by spreading awareness about health issues. People in the society are not
literate about the health conditions and issues about that. Health is generally taken in a lenient
manner. To focus on increasing the performance of health condition, first step is reaching to
the people. It ensures to the public by reflecting that best services are provided in public, by
having health camps which could satisfy their health needs (Pate, et.al , 2015). Other than
that health is promoted by using digital technologies so that clear information and drawbacks
of certain diseases are showcased.
Issues-In the society it can be seen that smoking habits is raising day by day. Poverty is the
biggest reason of smoking as because of poverty a lot of peer pressure is developed in the
individual. Other than youth how are not able to achieve good heights in career starts
smoking. It is important to make people aware in the society about the steps that need to be
taken. Various programs are imitated by the government which shows bad health warning of
smoking and impact of smoking on the body (Shonkoff, Boyce & McEwen, 2010). Especially

the youth in the society is suffering from this problem. Also by using digital technologies
helps in supporting good health. Many programs have been started to make public aware how
the issue can be resolved (Conley & Durlak, 2017). Like teaching the youth ways to quit
smoking and improve health. Another motive for this is to make health system active so that
users voice could be raised so that response can be built accordingly (Conley & Durlak,
2017).
Determinants on health due to smoking-Smoking is the major causes of diseases and it
directly affects the blood circulation of the body and leads to heart prone disease or lung
cancer. Health promotion is used to make people in the society aware about effects of
smoking, and how it is affecting the internal conditions of human being. Health promotion is
used to show the negative side of smoking, so that youth take steps to improve the health
conditions. It basically showcases what could be the disorders of smoking and why it is
dangerous to life. It not only affects the life of an individual but all the people around in the
society, especially kids who don’t have a strong immune system. It increases the risks of
infections and gives rise to breathing complication. In short it has an adverse effect on the
society. Smoking habit is mainly caused due to stress, anxiety and depression. It is mainly
seen in those people who are poor and have limited social support. Smoking in the society
has been reduced by increasing the taxation on Tabaco products. Successful restrictions have
been applied on tobacco products and awareness is been created in public to reduce mental
disorders. It has also increased the efforts so that long term disease can be tackled by
providing high quality services. But everyday a new disease emerges in the market which is
unpredictable and give rises to sever health conditions (Hasler , 2010). ). Thus health
promotion is treated as a weapon in this scenario that leads to a positive health of the
individual which in turn also decreases the weakness of poor health conditions (Watt, 2015).
On the other hand it improves the health state by opening various health centres for the

people who are addicted to smoking, by using health campaigns which include various steps
like Non-pharmacology treatment or training that helps the patient to recover faster in
behavioural and intellectual patterns.
Issues of smoking have impacted the economy of the country as well as impacted moral
accepts of the society. For overcoming from these shortcomings community based care is
provided and a proper collaboration is made. The consequence of bad health is that it brings
loss to life and sorrow in many adults. Prevention from this anxiety by lessens the effects and
becoming stable improves mental health. Via various social programs, educational programs
or motivational conferences, mental stress is minimized and increases the physical wellness
of an individual (Mcleroy, et. al, 2011). Smoking habits can be improved by keeping the
individual busy in some or the other activities, or meeting new people which my help them
feel better and come out of depression. Apart from meeting new individuals to steps should
be taken to control the consumption tobacco. Also mediation can be undertaken to improve
health conditions (Breslow, 2012).
The Prevention Paradox -Health promotion is a part of Health unit which deals with the
department of chronic disease and promotes health clusters. Like effective health programs
are conducted in the nation to improve education regarding health issues. World health
organisation promotes strategic means to prevent health risks and take steps to change social,
economic and political conditions. It enhances the quality of life and reduces the chances of
death. By focusing on prevention and performing health education would encourage healthy
behaviour in the society. Health promotion improves benefits and protects individual
behaviours by addressing and preventing people from becoming ill and having injuries. These
policies support rules and regulation to match public health goals (Stokols, 2013). For
example controlling smoking habits is done by aligning high tax policies on unhealthy or
harmful products like alcohol, Tabaco or food products that have high consumption of

alcohol. Also by spreading alertness about public policies launched by government like non-
smoking policy or alcohol related policies. Legislation also supports healthy cities by
reducing the danger of smoking (DiClemente, Crosby & Kegler, 2010). Healthy literacy need
to be acquired in the society so that healthy choices can be made by eating healthy and living
in an healthy environment. Key role of promoting good health is done by strong communities
that supports healthy planning and build preventive measures by providing health care
facilities.
Approaches taken to improve smoking issue- Health promotion works on addressing
certain issues by increasing strong social networks, building respectful relation in the
society, encouraging healthy safe and supportive community to reduce depression in the
society. World health organisation is a global initiate that promotes health activities in
local, national and regional levels. Various good healthy policies reduce health
inequalities. In other words health promotion also supports a person who is suffering from
discrimination in the society which in turn reduces smoking habits. It is true health
promotion can make a change in the society and reduces significant cause of chronic
disease (Stokols, 2013). It is a crucial process to improve health control and creates new
activities to boost up the promotion of health issues so that risk of disease can be
prevented. Framework of health suggests that health is linked by individual behaviour and
family environment. Health promotion has built many policies that make health a central
line of government policy which means that the factors for health implications to take
decisions, and prioritize policies that prevent people from becoming ill and protect them
from injuries. As those people who are addicted to smoking should be given anti tablets
which helps than reducing addiction towards smoking. These policies support public
health goals.

Health promotion is not an easy task it has several barriers like cost for setting public
programs. Other than that setting up digital health system is very difficult to operate by old
aged people as they are not updated about using new technologies. Excess of tobacco use or
alcoholic consumption causes injuries to health and affects human behaviour. Providing long
term care facilities ensures that individual could be recovered from smoking habits by
providing proper treatment. Other than that, it is important to know where smoking habit
starts from. Smoking or depression mainly starts due to discrimination in society or lack of
awareness. Health promotion is the key that helps people in altering the lifestyle by educating
public about health conditions and decreasing the probabilities of having chronic disease. The
global acceptance of these strategies has changed the pattern of living. Health issues are
addressed by empowering communities to take prominent actions for public health. Various
Health Promotion programs were started to control access of smoking and addiction to drugs
so that mental disorder is no caused in individuals. Health Strategy have planned some
prevention methods like to provide care services at home, making it more effective and
sustainable (Glasgow, Vogt & Boles, 2014).
Health promotion is an important link in the community which includes active
contribution of communities. Health promotion is an integral part for prevention of disease
and recovery from rehabilitation. It is and program that deals with common lifestyle of
people and tries to improve the well-being. By influencing people and making them aware
about the bad health effects. Health promotion means building health educational works in
society to teach people why it is necessary to be healthy. It showcases the challenges faced by
people to attain a good health. By educating families and individual help a person reduce the
chances of getting indulges in wrong habits. Smoking and mental health in the society is
reduced by promoting the causes of smoking and bad effects it causes on health. Various

programs have been started to avoid and make people aware about cons of smoking. In short
health promotion helps in improving the health of an individual by taking certain steps.

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