A: Health promotion allows people to improve the control of their own health. It covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions designed to promote and protect the health and quality of life at the individual level by addressing the main causes of ill health, including prevention, and not only focusing on treatment and healing.
Health promotion has 3 essential elements:
1. Good governance
Health promotion requires policymakers across government departments to make health a central focus of government policy. This means that they must consider health implications in all decisions they make and prioritize policies that prevent people from getting sick and protecting them from trauma.
These policies need to be based on regulations that harmonize incentives for the private sector with public health objectives, for example by aligning fiscal policies on harmful and harmful products, such as alcohol, alcohol, and alcohol. tobacco or foodstuffs rich in salt, sugar and fat, on measures stimulating trade in other areas.
Legislation must also promote healthy urban planning, with the creation of pedestrian-friendly cities, the reduction of air and water pollution and the implementation of measures requiring the use of seatbelts and helmets.
2. Knowledge
People need to acquire the knowledge, skills, and information to make the right health choices, for example in terms of the food they eat and the care they need. They must have the opportunity to make those choices. And they must be guaranteed an environment in which they can call for new policy measures to further improve their health.
3. Healthy cities
Cities have a crucial role to play in promoting health. Strong leadership and strong commitment at the municipal level are essential for healthy urban planning and prevention measures in communities and primary health care settings. It is from healthy cities that countries, and ultimately the world, will move towards better health.
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