Think about this point. The earliest published reference to health promotion was by C.E.A. Winslow who describes public health practice as:

"the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health and well-being through organized community effort for the sanitization of the environment, the control of communicable infections…the education of the individual in personal health and the development of a social machinery to ensure a standard of living adequate for the maintenance or improvement of health” (cited in Green, 1990, p. 4).