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Discussion
Health
Promotion Features
Introduction
Health promotion
has a number of unique features to ensuring the health and well-being
of individuals and communities that distinguish it from other approaches
such as population health and disease prevention.
These include:
 holistic
view of health;
focus on participatory
approaches;
focus on the determinants
of health, the social, behavioural, economic and environmental
conditions that are the root causes of health and illness;
building on existing
strengths and assets, not just addressing health problems
and deficits; and
using multiple, complementary
strategies to promote health at the individual and community
level.
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For
more information about features of health promotion and
the way they shape health promotion practice, please refer
to Module 6 in Part B, Health Promotion in Action.
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