Personal and social development occurs through the provision of
information for health and the enhancement of life skills
This increases options in the control over your own health e.g
planning, problem solving, goal setting etc
These skills lead to:
The ability to seek information
Individual enpowerment
Autonomy
Develops a greater capacity to respond to changes and
adjustments that occur in health.
Creating supportive environments
Focuses on the places where people live, work and play.
The ability to make decisions within these settings
Example: Healthy school canteens
Alcohol free zones within the community
Strengthening Community action
Focus is on the empowerment of communities to identify and implement actions to address
their health concerns.
Communities need to work together to set health priorities, make decisions, plan strategies and
implement them leading to greater ownership and control over health promotion services
Example: Schools, workplaces and local
government (NSW government, live life well
campaign).
Reorienting health services
Focuses on the well being of the whole person - promotion health, preventing ill
health and supporting well being.
Reorienting-adjusting the direction/focus of a service to create a fresh approach.
Example: Health professionals working with and supporting schools in health promotion initiatives such as
jump rope for heart.
Building public health policy
Relates to decisions made at all levels of
government and by organisations that work
towards health improvement.
Goes beyond the health sector - includes legislation, policies, taxes and
organisational change in areas such as education, welfare, recreation etc.
Co-ordinated action helps to make healthier choices in
our working and living environments
Example: Food packaging labels, legislation on smoking in public places,
school policy in relation to sun safety.
Prerequisites for health
Basic necessities for health
Peace
Shelter
Education
Food
Income
Stable ecosystem
Sustainable resources
Equity
Social justice
Health is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources
aswell as physical capabilities
Health promotion
Process of enabling people to increase control over and
to improve their health
Allowing them to reach a state of complete physical, mental and social
wellbeing/
Health is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources, as well as physical
capacities.
Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond
healthy lifestyles to well-being.