Health Promotion

Question 1

What are the key PRINCIPLES of health promotion?

Answer 1

1. Involvement of whole community in context of everyday life
2. Tackling the determinants of health
3. Use of different methods and approaches
4. Effective public participation
5. Involvement of health professionals in health education and advocacy

Question 2

What are the AIMS of health promotion?

Answer 2

1. Strengthen health
2. Redistribute power and control over health issues - individual and collective
3. Reduce the negative impact of a many health determinants from the social, political and economic environments
4. Shift resources to prevention
5. Give attention to the non-physical aspects of health
6. Take an ecological appraoch to health
7. Recognise community involvement and development as legitimate and effective strategies

Question 3

What are the BROAD STRATEGIES of health promotion?

Answer 3

Advocacy - for favourable health conditions
Enabling - with information and skills for making healthy choices
Mediation - between different groups to ensure pursuit of health

Question 4

What are the main ACTION AREAS of health promotion?

Answer 4

1. Build healthy public policy
2. Create supportive environments
3. Strengthen community actions
4. Develop personal skills
5. Reorient health services

Question 5

What is the health promotion equation?

Answer 5

Health public policy X Health education

Question 6

What are the approaches to health promotion?

Answer 6

1. Empowerment
2. Disease prevention (medical model)
3. Educational
4. Ecological