“Health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health, and enhancing life skills. By so doing, it increases the options available to people to exercise more control over their own health and over their environments, and to make choices conducive to health” (WHO, 1986, p 3.)
(image retrieved from Global Oneness, 2011).Strengthen Community Action
“Health promotion works through concrete and effective community action in setting priorities, making decisions, planning strategies and implementing them to achieve better health. At the heart of this process is the empowerment of communities - their ownership and control of their own endeavours and destinies” (WHO, 1986, p 3).
(Image retrieved from Union City, 2011).Build Healthy Public Policies
“Health promotion goes beyond health care. It puts health on the agenda of policy makers in all sectors and at all levels, directing them to be aware of the health consequences of their decisions and to accept their responsibilities for health,” (WHO, 1986, p 2).
(Image retrieved from Community & Public Health, 2011).Reorienting Health Services
“The responsibility for health promotion in health services is shared among individuals, community groups, health professionals, health service institutions and governments. They must work together towards a health care system which contributes to the pursuit of health,” (WHO, 1986, P 3).
(Image retrieved from Paho, 2011).Create Supportive Environments
“Our societies are complex and interrelated. Health cannot be separated from other goals. The inextricable links between people and their environment constitutes the basis for a socioecological approach to health. The overall guiding principle for the world, nations, regions and communities alike, is the need to encourage reciprocal maintenance - to take care of each other, our communities and our natural environment,” (WHO, 1986, p 2).
(Image retrieved from EuroCare, 2011)
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