Health promotion
Health Promotion
Health Promotion (pronunciation: /hɛlθ prəˈmoʊʃən/) is a process that enables people to increase control over and improve their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.
Etymology
The term "Health Promotion" is derived from the English words "health" which originates from the Old English word "hǣlth", and "promotion" which comes from the Latin word "promovere", meaning to move forward.
Definition
Health Promotion is defined as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It involves the population as a whole in the context of their everyday lives, rather than focusing on people at risk for specific diseases, and is directed towards action on the determinants of health.
Related Terms
- Public Health: The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals.
- Preventive Healthcare: Measures taken for disease prevention, as opposed to disease treatment.
- Wellness (medicine): The state of being in good health, especially as an actively pursued goal.
- Health Education: Profession of educating people about health.
- Social Determinants of Health: Conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Health promotion
- Wikipedia's article - Health promotion
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