Health promotion
https://www.who.int/health-topics/health-promotion“Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.” Health Promotion Glossary, 1998. A brief history of Health Promotion. The first International Conference on Health Promotion was held in Ottawa in 1986, and was primarily a response to growing expectations for a new public health movement around the world.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: An Overview
www.enhanced-healthcare.org › health-promotion-andJan 31, 2021 · Health promotion engages and empowers individuals and communities to choose healthy behaviors and reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases through primary prevention. In contrast, disease prevention focuses on reducing chronic diseases’ development and severity through secondary and tertiary prevention. There are considerable risk factors for disease, or the disease process has already begun. The Role of Health Promotion. Health promotion practices have evolved in response to the ...