Health Promotion Health promotion is defined as the process of enabling people to have autonomy
to improve or increase control over their health and an increase control over the determinants surrounding it (WHO, 1986). The health promotion process orientates towards promoting health and disease prevention, rather than focusing on disease and illness, moving away from a curative model towards a preventative model (Mooney et al. 20011). Frameworks and strategies in health promotion often address social determinants through education, policy, environment and communication.
References
Mooney et al., 2011, ‘Nursing students' attitudes to health promotion to: Implications for teaching practice’, Nurse Education Today, vol. 31, no. 8, pp.841–848.
World Health Organisation (WHO) 1986, Health Promotion Conferences, viewed 1st July 2017.
http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/previous/ottawa/en/
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