Healthy communities

[Name of Newspaper]

[Address of Newspaper]

Dear Editor

The purpose of this letter is to highlight the benefits of the efforts of the healthy community. The work of a healthy community must be elaborated to the public in order to make the society healthy and to prevent the disease prevalence. This letter makes the people aware of initiatives to take for the health promotion via the social-ecological model.

Social-ecological model is the criteria which involve the improvement in two sectors individual behavior and its influence on the environment. The effects of the environment on the behavior of the individual are also the essential aspect of the social-ecological approach. This environmental influence is divided into three systems

Macrosystem

Exosystem

Mesoosystem

Microsystem

Microsystem means the face to face interaction within the work groups, networks of informal social and immediate family relations. Mesosystem is associated with the relation and role of an individual in different areas of society such as in church, school, family and the peer groups. The exosystem is a crucial system in which an individual is affected by the forces of the social environment in which he lives. The examples of exosystem include the rate of unemployment that badly affects the stability of the economy. The last is macrosystem that depends on the cultural beliefs of the population regarding smoking, food selection from the various options available, particularly in developing the identity of culture. These systems do not influence the behavior of the individual only, but the other sub factors also impart to influence the human behavior.

Human behavior play vital role in developing the trend in the community that may lead to the positive and negative circumstances within the society. It may involve in the building up of the organizations working for the population benefits or may pursue the individual to join the gangs or some sort of groups causing destruction of the environment.

There are many communities exist in our society who are formed to promote the constructive aspects to enhance the quality of life. These communities aim to offer the concept and implementation of the health promotion in the society (Rodrigues, 2010). Many programs have been carried out regarding promotion of health and disease prevention in the past. Though, the concept of health promotion is different from the perspective of control and prevention of diseases. The improvement of health in the society needs the efforts of the individuals, different groups and organizations. All of them should put their ...