Public Health Promotion and Management (Masters)

Public Health Promotion and Management

More than a decade, the WHO Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) has been launched to support hospitals towards placing greater emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention, rather than on diagnostic and curative services alone.( Macdonald 2002) The Health Promoting Hospitals Strategy focuses on meeting the physical, mental and social needs of a growing number of chronically ill and the elderly to meet the needs of hospital staff, who are exposed to physical stress and psychological and on meeting the needs of the public and the environment.

Twenty hospitals in eleven European countries ...