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Health Promotion Disease Prevention Health Promotion
Health promotion is the process that tackles fundamental causes and determinants of illness, thus enabling people to gain more
control over and improve their health. It is a collective effort of individuals, groups, institutions, and communities to implement various cost-effective social and environmental interventions and strategies to enhance individual and community health and wellbeing. Health promotion has five key elements: Good Governance Strengthening governance is done by rendering health a key element in all government policies because a wide range of factors outside the health sectors affects health, making health services accessible and feasible. Health Literacy People should
acquire
the
knowledge,
skills,
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opportunities to play an active role in strengthening their health, participate in community action for health, and push governments to fulfill their responsibilities. Healthy Settings Originating from WHO Health for All strategy, The key principles of the Healthy Settings approach are community engagement, partnership, empowerment, and equity. Social mobilization All societal and personal influences cooperate to raise awareness of and demand for health care and to assist resources and services delivery. Healthy cities Competent, dedicated leadership is vital to healthy urban planning and the implementation of preventive measures in communities and primary health care facilities.
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