Health Promotion

Question 1

Defining health promotion

Answer 1

Is a planned, organised and structured activity which promotes health or illness related learning done for informed and uninformed participants

Question 2

Focus areas of health promotion

Answer 2

Good governance for health - changing rules, regulations and policies placed in place for health promotion.
Environmental support - environment that supports people’s health such as clinics and environment that do no support health such as dumping sites
Strengthen health literacy - skill / information transfer

Question 3

3 key tool for health promotion

Answer 3

Enablement - empowerment, education, developing personal skills.
Mediation - acting as a middle man.
Advocacy - a process of pushing for change

Question 4

5 action areas for health promotion

Answer 4

Make healthy choices easy choices.
Creating a healthy environment
Strengthening community actions- involve community in all stages.
Develop personal skills for sustainability.
Reorientate the health services - shifting from curative to prevention and health promotion

Question 5

5 principles of health promotion

Answer 5

Equity - equal opportunity to enjoy health for all.
Empowerment - increase control to communities have over their own health.
Participation - community involvement.
Inter-sectoral activity - collaboration with other sectors.
Emphasis on primary health care - prevention is better than cure