Medication is used to prevent and control existing conditions, to keep them from worsening
and causing more severe symptoms and more serious health issues. Health care is an …

This book is a comprehensive resource for theory, research and action in health education
and health promotion. The authors describe strategies and actions for health education and …

Insights into the factors affecting health and into the causes and natural history of many
diseases have led to an increasing understanding of how health can be promoted and …

The use of theory in the planning and implementation of health promotion programs will
more reliably produce positive outcomes. Following on from the success of the second …

• Models used to inform health promotion activity tend to adopt a bio-medical focus, an
individual focus, a societal focus or a combined perspective. Practitioners can promote …

Not all forms of public health intervention are equally successful in achieving their aims and
objectives. Experience tells us that health promotion interventions are most likely to be …

This article presents the benefits and limitations of the Tannahill model, a model that
presented health promotion as three overlapping spheres of activity: health education …

So many years after its first description, 25 to be precise, it seems to be overdone to explain
what health promotion stands for. Yet, this is where we start. The origin of the health …

Health promotion is often viewed as based in experience; theory is seemingly at a more
abstract level. The reasons for this are many. This paper explores some theoretical …

The key concepts of health promotion were defined by the Ottawa Charter for Health
Promotion (1986). Within the context of health promotion, health has been considered less …