Health promotion involves public policy that addresses health determinants such as income, housing, food security, employment, and quality working conditions.
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14 Facts About Health promotion
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Health promotion is aligned with health equity and can be a focus of non-governmental organizations dedicated to social justice or human rights.
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International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services is the official, international network for the promotion and dissemination of principles, standards, and recommendations for health promotion in the hospital and health services settings.
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Worksite health promotion programs include exercise, nutrition, smoking cessation and stress management.
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WHO and its Regional Offices such as the Pan American Health Organization are influential in health promotion around the world.
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Ministry of Health Promotion sees that its fundamental goals are to promote and encourage Ontarians to make healthier choices at all ages and stages of life, to create healthy and supportive environments, lead the development of healthy public policy, and assist with embedding behaviours that promote health.
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Canadian Health promotion Network was a "reliable, non-commercial source of online information about how to stay healthy and prevent disease" that was discontinued in 2007.
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BC Coalition for Health Promotion is "a grassroots, voluntary non-profit society dedicated to the advancement of health promotion in British Columbia".
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The Centre is a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion Research, has an active multidisciplinary research programme, and collaborates with regional, national and international agencies on the development and evaluation of health promotion interventions and strategies.
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Health promotion Workforce New Zealand is an organisation that is part of the National Health promotion Board which provides national leadership on the development of the health workforce.
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Health promotion is highlighted by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare as the agency suggests this to be a component in health professionals' curriculum and training, which concerns, for example, Registered Nurses and Physicians.
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For example, a Swedish study suggest that health promotion interventions aiming at empowering adolescents in disadvantaged communities, should enable active learning activities, use visualizing tools to facilitate self-reflection, and allow the adolescents to influence the intervention activities.
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Royal Society for Public Health was formed in October 2008 by the merger of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health and the Royal Institute of Public Health.
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Such an approach is arguably how health promotion has developed over the years pulling in learning from different sectors and disciplines to enhance and develop.
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