The Importance Of Health Promotion And Disease Prevention

Health promotion is a term that refers to the achievement of the best possible health for all people. It is defined as a process of enabling people to increase the control they have over health and how to improve their health (WHO, 2017). It is about achieving health for an individual first then for the community as a whole. The overall goal for health promotion is the prevention of morbidity and mortality. Health promotion ensures that there is proper health and in the process reduces the overall death rate from certain diseases that may be affecting the community. Health promotion does not only represent the physical health status of an individual. It also has to do with the emotional well-being, intellectual function, spiritual condition, and sexuality of all people. On the other hand, disease prevention, which is heavily related to health, represents the idea behind hindering the emergence and development of diseases. As a result of disease prevention, the well-being of different people is promoted through such means as the strengthening of their individual, physical, and socio-economic determinants of health and health-related behaviors, according to Skovsgaard, Nielsen & Aro (2007). Health promotion and disease prevention activities are aimed at patient

This can only be achieved if there are links between scientific and professional fields and that the methods, theories, world views of all people are considered in making these health decisions. For health promotion and disease prevention to be effective towards improving people’s conditions, it will need to consider the various circumstances that influence health patterns such as biological factors and the physical