Content
Discussion
A Recap of
Key Features of Health Promotion
You'll recall from Module 1
that health promotion has a number of unique features. These features
distinguish it from other approaches to ensuring the health and
well-being of individuals and communities, such as population
health and disease prevention. To recap, these features
include:
 a
holistic view of health
a focus on participatory
approaches
a 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
using multiple,
complementary strategies to promote health at the individual
and community level.
To illustrate
the ways in which these features shape health promotion practice,
consider the following case study.
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