Page 5 - health promotion

Acknowledging the living conditions of people in low income and middle income
areas will influence the health promotions in communities. Health promotion brings
multiple interventions to different conditions in a community, especially low income
and model income communities. Let us take HIV/AIDS in these particular
communities, the education, screening and providing supportive care to people
above 13 has contributed to them using prevention methods, staying away from
having sex while they are still young and having people not actually support them if
they have this disease. Health promotion has made people that have disease be
aware about ways to prevent the spread of the disease and to keep people around
them safe. this does not only go for HIV/AIDS but also any other disease that can be
sexually transmitted. Educating these communities help people learn more about
touching someone's blood without wearing gloves, needle exchange from person A
to person B and and more non-traditional knowledge about male circumcision.

Another educational benefits would be mental disorders that low and middle income
areas come across. Let's start with perinatal mental disorder these are mental and
behavioral disorders that appear during pregnancy or during the first year after birth.
Teaching women in these communities about infant development, engaging with
their infants, being responsive to their infants and being open minded to the growth
and change the infants bring tackles their mental states but education is not the only
way to tackle this disorder, giving the women opportunities to share their feelings
and concerns with each other or social workers is very important and this leads the
community having less mothers committing suicide, murdering the infants, having
miscarriages, abandoning the children to leave them homeless and poverty.

The benefits of having health promotion in the case above insures that every
pregnant women and postnatal women that are/not diagnosed with this disorder
increase their knowledge and awareness. Women who are likely to get diagnosed
are included in the programs and screening at their public clinics. Mental disorders
can be detected earlier and have a positive effect on everyone around.