Summary Health promotion

Health Promotion

What Is Health?

 Physical, social and mental wellbeing
 Free of disease and infirmity
 Optimum capacity top deal with life

Health Education

 Activities designed to extend knowledge of individuals about maintaining
a health lifestyle and to prevent illness
 Can positively influence beliefs and behaviours
 Can be followed or ignored by the recipient

Heath Promotion

 Enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health.
Focuses on the population instead of just an individual
 Health protection/development
 Achieve quality of life, user satisfaction and empowerment

Public Health

 Improving the health of the population not treating individual’s diseases
 2014 Live Well For Longer

Methods

 Mass media
 Target specific groups
 One to one
 Healthy living
 Dietary advice
 Monitoring and support
 Aimed at: physical activity, alcohol consumption, smoking , sexual health
and pregnancy