This document discusses health promotion and related concepts. It defines health promotion as activities that help people change their lifestyles to achieve optimal health. Health is described as a multidimensional concept involving physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being. The document also discusses the health ecology perspective, which views health as being influenced by personal and environmental factors. Levels of prevention, including primary, secondary and tertiary prevention are outlined.

1. Introduction to Health Promotion

2. • Textbook Definition: A state of physical, mental, spiritual and social functioning that
realizes a person’s potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
• World Health Organization Definition: A state of complete physical, mental and social
well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

3. Spiritual Social
Emotional Intellectual
Physical
• Health is multidimensional
• Involves differing levels of functioning in these areas

5. Health Ecology
• Perspective model of health
• Multidimensional
• Expanding from the individual into the surrounding community
• Incorporates a systems approach within which the actions of one portion of the system
affect the functioning of the system as a whole

6. Health Ecology

7. Holistic health is the understanding that people are
not just physical bodies; people have emotional,
spiritual and relationship aspects involved with well-
being that combine within the physical body to
make a whole person.

8. Write down your ideas and bring them to class for a discussion.
• How do dental hygienists promote holistic health?

9. The range of personal, social, economic, and
environmental factors that influence health
status are known as determinants of health

10. Health
• A state of complete
physical, mental and social
well-being and not merely
the absence of disease or
infirmity
Disease
• The failure of a person’s
adaptive mechanisms to
counteract stimuli and
stresses adequately,
resulting in functional or
structural disturbances
Illness
• The subjective experience
of the individual and the
physical manifestation of
disease

11. • Health Promotion is the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move
toward a state of optimal health
• Evolutionary thinking of disease prevention
• Why not create an environment in which each person and all communities can be
healthy and thus able to respond to the challenges of their health?

12. Levels of
Prevention
Primary
Prevention
Aims to prevent
the onset of
disease of injury
Secondary
Prevention
Early Disease Detection
Tertiary Prevention
Reduce the negative
impact of an already
established disease by
restoring function and
reducing complications

13. References
• Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the
International Health Conference, New York, 19-22 June, 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by
the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no.
2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948
• Darby, M., & Walsh, M. (2010). Dental hygiene theory and practice. (4th ed.). St. Louis:
Elsevier.
• Edelman, C., Kudzma, E., & Mandle, C. (2014). Health promotion throughout the life
span. (8th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier.