Health promotion

and health
education
Define health promotion
• Health promotion: is the process of enabling people to increase control over,
and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour
towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.
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What are the Describe goals of health promotion
• Health promotion focuses on achieving equity in
health. Health promotion action aims at reducing
differences in current health status and
ensuring equal opportunities and resources to
enable all people to achieve their fullest health
potential.
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List three places that health promotion materials
are seen or heard
 Define health education
• Health education is a social science that draws from the biological, environmental,
psychological, physical and medical sciences to promote health and prevent
disease, disability and premature death through education-driven voluntary behavior
change activities.
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 List three places that health education materials
are seen or heard?
• Health education is carried out at 3 main levels; Individual
Approach. Group Approach. General Approach/Mass.
Explain one similarity between health
promotion and health education
• Health promotion and health education both
advocate for health in a systematic way or as a
planned application, however we learned in class
that anyone can promote health, but not everyone
can be a health educator when it comes to health
education.
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 Explain two differences between health
promotion and health education
• Health education involves voluntary changes in behavior
through awareness, knowledge, skills, beliefs, attitudes, and
values, whereas health promotion utilizes approaches that
compel individuals to change their behaviors.
Inserta copy of the pillars of health promotion
diagram
Describe each pillar of health promotion using your
own words giving an example foreach pillar