health promotion

English - Turkish

Definition of health promotion in English Turkish dictionary

(Tıp) sağlığın önemi

(Tıp) sağlığın geliştirilmesi

Related Terms

employee health promotion

işçi sağlık desteği

US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

(Askeri) Birleşik Devletler Kara Kuvvetleri Sağlık İyileştirme ve Koruyucu Hekimlik Merkezi

English - English

Definition of health promotion in English English dictionary

The process of enabling individuals to increase control over and improve their health It involves the population as a whole in the context of their everyday lives, rather than focusing on people at risk for specific diseases, and is directed toward action on the determinants or causes of health

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health

Health promotion programs are designed to enhance the level of awareness and self-responsibility of employees in order to increase or maintain an individual's health status and thereby reduce the incidence of illness and injury

Encouraging consumer behaviours most likely to optimise health potential (physical and psychosocial) through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical care

"The process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health" (WHO)

A general philosophy that maintains that health is a personal and collective achievement; the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health Health promotion may occur through individual efforts, through interaction with the medical system, and through a concerted health policy effort

Any combination of health education and related organizational, political, and economic interventions designed to facilitate behavioral and environmental adaptations that will improve or protect health

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realise aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment Health is, therefore, seen as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living Health is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy lifestyles to psychosocial wellbeing (WHO 1986)

Any action or intervention designed to promote health and prevent ill health It includes health education and wider action on the social physical and economic environment which influences health and health related choices

Process of fostering awareness, influencing attitudes, and identifying alternatives so that individuals can make informed choices and modify their behavior in order to achieve an optimum level of physical and mental health

Hyphenation

health pro·mo·tion

Turkish pronunciation

helth prımōşın

Pronunciation

/ˈhelᴛʜ prəˈmōsʜən/ /ˈhɛlθ prəˈmoʊʃən/