COPD Health Promotion

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Health promotion promotes advocacy, enablement and mediation, these actions work together to promote good health, equality in healthcare services, access to healthcare information and promoting healthy choices, it also brings together coordinated action from every party involved: governments, economic, social sector, health sector, media and basically the common man, to play a role in the pursuit of health.
The world health organisation (WHO) plays a very important role in fighting COPD, it incorporates its members to increase the awareness of the public to make sure people, healthcare professionals understand the effect of COPD disease, and the complexities associated with it, and strategies for management of the disease and monitor the epidemiology.(who.int) .
The royal society for public health(RSPH) also suggested that investing in social marketing approaches has yielded potential impact and effectiveness of national and local health improvements., empowerment of individuals, communities, to be involved in the health and wellbeing would increase quality of life.

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