Health Promotion

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to exert control over determinants of health and thereby improve their health.This purpose can be achieved at many levels; I will discuss some of them with you.

1- As individuals; we can develop good health habits early in life and carry them through adulthood old age, it will reduce the likelihood of getting diseases.

2- As medical practitioner; we can teaching people how to achieve healthy lifestyle and help people suffering from some health related problems.

3- As health psychologists; health promotion involves development of interventions to help people practice healthy behaviors and to avoid poor ones. And convincing them to move to some helpful activities.

4- As community and national policy makers; we can promote health by making sure the availability of information for people to develop and maintain healthy life styles, and also to provide the resources and facilities to help people remain healthy.

5- As a pert mass media; we can can contribute to health promotion by educating people about some habits which can lead to serious problems such as excessive alcohol consumption, Smoking, avoiding exercise.

6- Legislation; helps in this process by mandating some activities such as use of helmet and seat belts.

             Health promotion is very necessary in order to control the disease prevalence, by educating  people how to live healthy life preventing the chances to get disease.