HEALTH PROMOTION

How Health Promotion Students Perceived the Effects of Health Promotion Practices

How Health Promotion Students Perceived the Effects of Health Promotion Practices

Introduction

Health promotion includes measures and activities designed to strengthen the health of human resources and potentials to be achieved. It describes the process of empowerment of people, their control over determinants of health to increase and thus strengthen its health. It not only focuses on the behavior of individuals, their knowledge and skills but also social, economic and environmental conditions. Health is defined here in a holistic way as a physical, mental and social well-being that is influenced by individual, social and societal backgrounds. Health is so much a state or goal, rather than a resource for everyday life (King, 2007, p. 58-62).

While prevention aimed at the prevention or early detection of disease, focusing, for example, for vaccinations, healthy nutrition, early detection and adequate movement expresses, is the approach of health promotion to improve the health of people directed. The central question is what keeps people healthy. By changing the labor, environmental and living conditions as well as individual behavior is to create better conditions for healthy living are created. It is the active involvement (participation) of individuals and groups is essential in the world they live in order to enable sustainable empowerment to act (King, 2007, p. 58-62).

Originally, the concept of health promotion on 21 November 1986 by the World Health Organization (WHO) within the first International Conference in Ottawa, and developed into the so-called Ottawa Charter summarized. In further follow-up conferences (Adelaide (1988), Sundsvall (1991), Jakarta (1997), Mexico City (2000), Bangkok (2005), Nairobi (2009)) individual action areas of the Ottawa Charter were specified. The formulated in the Ottawa Charter basic ideas are still accepted as a guiding framework for policy and practice of health promotion. The concept includes the most important action strategies and action areas of health promotion. A distinction is made between three basic strategies and five key action areas (King, 2007, p. 58-62).

Critical review of the Literature

Strategies and action areas

Originally, the concept of health promotion on 21 November 1986 by the World Health Organization (WHO) within the first International Conference in Ottawa, and developed into the so-called Ottawa Charter summarized. In further follow-up conferences (Adelaide (1988), Sundsvall (1991), Jakarta (1997), Mexico City (2000), Bangkok (2005), Nairobi (2009)) individual action areas of the Ottawa Charter were specified. The formulated in the Ottawa Charter basic ideas are still accepted as a guiding framework for policy and practice of health promotion. The concept includes the most important action strategies and action areas of health promotion. A distinction is made between three basic strategies and five key action areas (McNulty, 2004, p. 65-72).

Strategies

When action strategies of health promotion nominated by the WHO

Lichen advocacy for health: the active step in promoting people's health and for health, for the purposes of influencing the political, economic, social, cultural, biological, and environmental and behavioral factors.

Empower and Enable: This action strategy aims to partner with individuals or groups to act in order to put ...