Health promotion is the process of enabling individuals and communities to increase control over and improve their health, addressing the behavioral, social, environmental, and structural determinants of wellbeing rather than disease alone. Articulated in public-health frameworks that emphasize healthy public policy…
Health promotion is the process of enabling individuals and communities to increase control over and improve their health, addressing the behavioral, social, environmental, and structural determinants of wellbeing rather than disease alone. Articulated in public-health frameworks that emphasize healthy public policy, supportive environments, community action, personal skills, and reoriented health services, it combines education, advocacy, and structural intervention to foster healthy behaviors and reduce risk. Health promotion spans mental and physical health and operates across settings including schools, workplaces, healthcare facilities, and whole communities, with strategies tailored to cultural context and population needs. The peer-reviewed research in this area examines health-promotion approaches across diverse populations and outcomes, including community-based mentoring and coaching to promote children's mental health, the collection of global opinion data for mental-health promotion, the use of tactile contact accompanying health-promotion messages to improve compliance during examinations, community concepts to face COVID-19, tobacco-control roadmaps, the health of older populations, partnerships between public-health functions within health and social services, preconception-care knowledge, culturally informed management of overweight and obesity, and the role of functional foods. Recurring themes include behavior change and education, mental-health promotion, the cultural tailoring of interventions, the integration of health-promotion functions within services and communities, and the evaluation of programs designed to improve health and prevent disease across the life course.
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