Pou Rima - PMGH Public Health Manual
PMGH Public Health Manual
Health promotion focuses on empowering people and communities to take control over their own health and wellbeing. Health promotion action happens across a spectrum, from whānau to communities to governments, usually through social and environmental interventions.1 Those interventions are designed to protect people’s health and quality of life by addressing and preventing the root causes of ill health.
Health promotion is a public health discipline, a framework and strategy for improving health. It can be used by communities and people in and out of the health sector as an approach for social justice and a social change