Author: Dr. Anjalatchi Muthukumaran
Publisher: Xoffencerpublication
ISBN: 939574507X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Health promotion is a guiding concept involving activities intended to enhance individual and community health well-being. It seeks to increase involvement and control of the individual and the community in their own health. It acts to improve health and social welfare, and to reduce specific determinants of diseases and risk factors that adversely affect the health, wellbeing, and productive capacities of an individual or society, setting targets based on the size of the problem but also the feasibility of successful interventions, in a cost-effective way. Health promotion is a key element in public health and is applicable in the community, clinics or hospitals, and in all other service settings. Raising awareness and informing people about health and lifestyle factors that might put them at risk requires teaching.