Health promotion aims to enable people to increase control over their health through various interventions and approaches. It focuses on strengthening individuals and creating healthy environments rather than targeting specific diseases. Key strategies include developing healthy public policies, creating supportive environments, strengthening community involvement, building personal skills, and reforming health services to incorporate health promotion. Major interventions are health education, environmental modifications, nutritional programs, and promoting lifestyle/behavior changes through community responsibility and health education.

1. HEALTHPROMOTION

2. HEALTHPROMOTION
INTRODUCTION:
●At the beginningof the 20th century, anew
concept, the concept of health promotion began
to take shape. It was realized that public health
had neglected the citizen asan individual and
that state hadadirect responsibility for the
health of the individual.

3. INTRODUCTION CONTT……
●Consequentlyin addition to disease control
activities, one more goal wasadded to public
health. I.e. health promotion of the individual.

4. DEFINITION:
●Health promotion isthe process of
enabling people to increase control over
and to improve health.” It is not directed
against anyparticular disease, but is
intended to strengthen the host through a
variety of approaches (interventions).

5. GOALS OF HEALTH PROMOTION
●
To create environments that allow all
the abilityto access all needed services.
●
To equip with the skills to determine their
own health needs.

6. STRATEGIES OF HEALTH
PROMOTION
1.Buildinghealthy public policy
● Development of smoke free spaces
2. Creatingsupportive environment
3. Strengthening communityAction
● Encouragement to initiate community groups

7. STRATEGIES OF HEALTH PROMOTION
CONTT……
4. Developingpersonal skills
● HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, MCH
5. Reorienting health services
●Reforming of the health sector to incorporate a
department focusing on adolescent health

8. HEALTH
INTERVENTIONS
AREA
IN
PROMOTION:
● 1. Health education
● 2. Environmental modifications
● 4. Lifestyle and behavioral changes
● 3. Nutritional interventions

9. HEALTH
EDUCATION
● This isone of the most cost-effective
interventions.Alarge number of diseases
could be prevented with little or no medical
intervention if people were adequately
informed about them and if they were
encouraged to take necessary precautions in
time.

10. HEALTH EDUCATION
CONTT……
●The targets of educational efforts may include
the general public, patients, prioritygroups,
health providers, communityleaders and
decision-makers.

11. ENVIRONMENTAL
MODIFICATION
Acomprehensive approach to
health promotion requires
environmental modifications,
such as provision of safe water;
installation of sanitary latrines;
control of insects and rodents;
improvement of housingetc.

12. ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATION
●The history of medicine has shown that
many infectious diseases have been
successfully controlled in manycountries
through environmental modifications.

13. NUTRITIONAL INTERVENTIONS
● These comprise food distribution and
nutritional improvement of vulnerable
groups: child feeding programmes,food
fortification; nutritional education,etc.

14. LIFE
STYLE
AND
BEHAVIOURAL
CHANGES
● The conventional public health measures or
interventions have not been successful in
makingin roads into lifestyle reforms. The
action of prevention in this case, isone of
individual and communityresponsibilityfor
health.

15. LIFE
STYLE
AND
BEHAVIOURAL
CHANGES
●Health education is abasic element of all health
activity. It is of paramount importance in
changingthe views, behavior and habits of
people.