Knowra Health promotion Health promotion Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. It combines individual skills with social, environmental, and policy action.
Health literacy : The knowledge and abilities people use to find, understand, evaluate, and apply health information. Health literacy helps people make informed choices and participate in decisions affecting their health.
School health promotion : A whole-school approach that supports health through teaching, policies, services, and the school environment. Schools can combine learning with changes to the daily conditions affecting children’s health.
World Health Organization : The United Nations agency responsible for international public health. The organization convened the conference that produced the Ottawa Charter.
Health education : Planned learning activities that help people gain knowledge and skills related to health. Health education is one tool within health promotion, not the full range of its social and policy action.
Health equity : The absence of unfair and avoidable differences in health among population groups. Reducing unfair health differences is a central measure of whether promotion benefits people equitably.
Community participation : The involvement of community members in decisions and actions affecting their shared conditions and services. Participation gives communities influence over priorities and programs that shape their health.
Workplace health promotion : Organized efforts to improve health and well-being through workplace policies, environments, and activities. Workplaces can shape health through job design, safety, social support, and access to services.
Alma-Ata Declaration : A 1978 declaration affirming primary health care as essential to achieving health for all. Its emphasis on community participation and equity helped shape the later health-promotion movement.
Public health : The organized effort of society to protect and improve population health. Health promotion is one approach within the broader practice of public health.
Empowerment : The process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their lives. Health promotion treats people’s increased control as both a means and an outcome.
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