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Health promotion and disease prevention
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Increase level of wellness for individuals, families, population and communities

help to:

 Increase healthy life span for all citizens

 Increase health disparities among population group

 Achieve equity in access for health services

Health Promotion Tips:

 Health promotion is focus on

changing patterns of behavior to

promote heath rather than to avoid

illness. Individual motivation and

participation play an important role

to sustain health promotion action.

 Health promotion involves focusing on populations as a whole and not

only on people who are at risk for or who have specific diseases.

 Health promotion represents a comprehensive social and political process, it

not only embraces actions directed at strengthening the skills and capabilities

of individuals, but also action directed towards changing social, environmental

and economic conditions so as to alleviate their impact on public and individual

health. Therefore,

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