Health Promotion Benefits

Health promotion programs can help populations to live healthier lifestyles when living with chronic disease(s). The reason why are health educators can provide individuals and communities with a better understanding of their conditions that affect them. We can provide these populations with modifiable health risk behaviors such as increasing physical activity, reducing poor nutrition, tobacco use and excessive alcohol consumption. We would also want to promote activities that encourage healthy living to help limit the effect of chronic disease such as continuing to get screened so there conditions will be managed appropriately to help reduce complications with their existing disease. With our support we will be able to offer education, social support, and healthy policies and environments that allow populations of people to take charge of their health with strategies that facilitate and support individual responsibility for behavior change.
The one (1) surveillance system I chose to discuss under the “Statistics and Tracking” tab is smoking and tobacco use. The CDC

I personally do not think smoking addiction is a communicable disease I feel that some of the negative effects of smoking can be communicable such as the risk of increased lung infections that can be caused by smoking such as upper respiratory tract infection which can be spread by coughing which could be passed on to another individual. I do see smoking as non-communicable disease because smoking is not passed directly from person to person like an infectious disease. But this negative lifestyle choice can increase the risk of dying of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases including heart attacks and stroke, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma are among the leading causes of death for