SGHPROSDH - Health Promotion

Health Promotion Strategies

• Health promotion goes beyond healthcare, putting health on the agenda of policymakers in all sectors and at all levels, directing them to be aware of the health consequences of their decisions.
• Health professionals have a major responsibility to act as advocates for health at all levels in society.

Mediating

• Mediating involves reconciling the different interests of individuals, communities, and sectors (public and private) in ways that promote and protect health.
• Joint action contributes to ensuring safer and healthier goods and services, healthier public services, and cleaner, more enjoyable environments.

Developing Personal Skills

• Health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health, and enhancing life skills.
• Enabling people to learn, throughout life, to prepare themselves for all of its stages and to cope with chronic illness and injuries is essential.

Reorienting Health Services

• The responsibility for health promotion in health services is shared among individuals, community groups, health professionals, health service institutions, and governments.
• Health promotion includes disease prevention, but also addresses the wider social determinants of health.

Prevailing Models of Health Promotion

• Over time, there have been several theories, strategies, and models that have been used to inform health promotion and disease prevention programs.
• Examples of ecological models include Project HEART (Health Education Awareness Research Team), which uses a community health worker (CHW) promotora model to provide services.

Enabling

• Enabling involves taking action in partnership with individuals or groups to empower them, through the mobilization of human and material resources, to promote and protect their health.
• The emphasis is on empowerment through partnership, and on the mobilization of resources, drawing attention to the important role of health workers and other health activists.

Building Healthy Public Policy

• Building healthy public policy involves the use of the mass media, direct political lobbying, and community mobilization through coalitions of interest around defined issues.
• Health promotion policy combines diverse but complementary approaches, including legislation, fiscal measures, taxation, and organizational change.

Strengthening Community Actions

• Strengthening community actions involves working through concrete and effective partnerships to support community-led initiatives.
• Assessing individual and organizational readiness for change, providing education, fostering partnerships, and ensuring enforcement of new policies are key steps in strengthening community actions.

Creating Supportive Environments

• Our societies are complex and interrelated, and health cannot be separated from other goals.
• Health promotion works through concrete and effective actions to health promotion as outlined in the Ottawa Charter.

Building Healthy Public Policy

• Health promotion goes beyond healthcare, putting health on the agenda of policymakers in all sectors and at all levels.
• It directs policymakers to be aware of the health consequences of their decisions and to accept their responsibilities for health.
• Health professionals have a major responsibility to act as advocates for health at all levels in society.

Mediating

• A process that reconciles the different interests of individuals, communities, and sectors to promote and protect health.
• Coordinated action leads to health, income, and social policies that foster greater equity.
• Joint action ensures safer and healthier goods and services, healthier public services, and cleaner, more enjoyable environments.

Developing Personal Skills

• Health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health, and enhancing life skills.
• It increases the options available to people to exercise more control over their own health and environments.
• Enabling people to learn, throughout life, to prepare themselves for all its stages and to cope with chronic illness and injuries is essential.

Reorienting Health Services

• The responsibility for health promotion in health services is shared among individuals, community groups, health professionals, health service institutions, and governments.
• Health promotion is defined as "enabling people to increase control over their own health."

Approaches to Health Promotion

• Health promotion goes beyond disease prevention, addressing the wider social determinants of health.
• Disease prevention focuses on specific efforts aimed at reducing the risk factors contributing to chronic diseases and morbidities.

Prevailing Models of Health Promotion

• There have been several theories, strategies, and models used to inform health promotion and disease prevention programs.
• Ecological models, such as Project HEART, have been used to design health promotion and disease prevention programs.

Health Promotion Strategies

• Health promotion goes beyond healthcare, putting health on the agenda of policymakers in all sectors and at all levels, directing them to be aware of the health consequences of their decisions.
• Health professionals have a major responsibility to act as advocates for health at all levels in society.

Mediating

• Mediating involves reconciling the different interests of individuals, communities, and sectors (public and private) in ways that promote and protect health.
• Joint action contributes to ensuring safer and healthier goods and services, healthier public services, and cleaner, more enjoyable environments.

Developing Personal Skills

• Health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health, and enhancing life skills.
• Enabling people to learn, throughout life, to prepare themselves for all of its stages and to cope with chronic illness and injuries is essential.

Reorienting Health Services

• The responsibility for health promotion in health services is shared among individuals, community groups, health professionals, health service institutions, and governments.
• Health promotion includes disease prevention, but also addresses the wider social determinants of health.

Prevailing Models of Health Promotion

• Over time, there have been several theories, strategies, and models that have been used to inform health promotion and disease prevention programs.
• Examples of ecological models include Project HEART (Health Education Awareness Research Team), which uses a community health worker (CHW) promotora model to provide services.

Enabling

• Enabling involves taking action in partnership with individuals or groups to empower them, through the mobilization of human and material resources, to promote and protect their health.
• The emphasis is on empowerment through partnership, and on the mobilization of resources, drawing attention to the important role of health workers and other health activists.

Building Healthy Public Policy

• Building healthy public policy involves the use of the mass media, direct political lobbying, and community mobilization through coalitions of interest around defined issues.
• Health promotion policy combines diverse but complementary approaches, including legislation, fiscal measures, taxation, and organizational change.

Strengthening Community Actions

• Strengthening community actions involves working through concrete and effective partnerships to support community-led initiatives.
• Assessing individual and organizational readiness for change, providing education, fostering partnerships, and ensuring enforcement of new policies are key steps in strengthening community actions.

Creating Supportive Environments

• Our societies are complex and interrelated, and health cannot be separated from other goals.
• Health promotion works through concrete and effective actions to health promotion as outlined in the Ottawa Charter.

Building Healthy Public Policy

• Health promotion goes beyond healthcare, putting health on the agenda of policymakers in all sectors and at all levels.
• It directs policymakers to be aware of the health consequences of their decisions and to accept their responsibilities for health.
• Health professionals have a major responsibility to act as advocates for health at all levels in society.

Mediating

• A process that reconciles the different interests of individuals, communities, and sectors to promote and protect health.
• Coordinated action leads to health, income, and social policies that foster greater equity.
• Joint action ensures safer and healthier goods and services, healthier public services, and cleaner, more enjoyable environments.

Developing Personal Skills

• Health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health, and enhancing life skills.
• It increases the options available to people to exercise more control over their own health and environments.
• Enabling people to learn, throughout life, to prepare themselves for all its stages and to cope with chronic illness and injuries is essential.

Reorienting Health Services

• The responsibility for health promotion in health services is shared among individuals, community groups, health professionals, health service institutions, and governments.
• Health promotion is defined as "enabling people to increase control over their own health."

Approaches to Health Promotion

• Health promotion goes beyond disease prevention, addressing the wider social determinants of health.
• Disease prevention focuses on specific efforts aimed at reducing the risk factors contributing to chronic diseases and morbidities.

Prevailing Models of Health Promotion

• There have been several theories, strategies, and models used to inform health promotion and disease prevention programs.
• Ecological models, such as Project HEART, have been used to design health promotion and disease prevention programs.