Health Promotion

Have you ever wondered about the meaning of Health Promotion? According to The World Health Organization Health promotion "is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health, it moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions". (1) Moreover, it focuses on restrain the root cause of illness (2) by covering a wide range of environmental and social interventions that could protect and benefit individual's health. Health Promotion is a way that everyone should follow to prevent chronic diseases through understanding its development over the years, apply the regulation on Ottawa charter, and political practice should establish institutions universally.

(3) "William Alison's reports (1827-28) on epidemic typhus and relapsing fever, Louis Rene Villerme's report (1840) on Survey of the physical and moral conditions of the workers employed in the cotton, wool and silk factories John Snow's classic studies of cholera (1854), etc., stand testimony to this increasing realization on the web of disease causation". (4) The term 'Health Promotion' was instituted in"1945 by Henry E. Sigerist", the considerable therapeutic history specialist, who characterized the four noteworthy errands of prescription as advancement of wellbeing, counteractive action of disease, rebuilding of the wiped out and recovery. His announcement that wellbeing was advanced by giving a health standard life, convenient work conditions, practice physical activity, background culture, methods for rest and entertainment and required the coordinated endeavors of statesmen, work, industry

For example, Australia has one of the best Health Promotion programs it is called "Australian Health Promotion Association, it main goal is to advance the health of all people in Australia through leadership, advocacy and support for health promotion action in practice, research, evaluation and policy"().It is committed to the following principles. "Ethical Practice Supporting culturally informed, participatory respectful and safe practice, Health Equity addressing the social determinants of health in order to build health equity, Collaboration working in partnership with other organizations to improve health and wellbeing". Another example is, The Public Health Foundation of India. Their purpose is to work toward a healthier future. They have established some admirable programs, such as "Tobacco control, Physical Activity, Alcohol control, Diabetes prevention and management Adolescent