Health promotion
Topic: Community health
The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health, as defined by the 1986 Ottawa Charter. It spans healthy public policy, supportive environments, community action, personal skills and reorienting health services. Nurses support behaviors such as healthy eating, physical activity and living tobacco-free.
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What does Health promotion mean?
Health promotion is part of the Community health topic in nursing. Students meet it in class, on clinical placements and while preparing for exams.
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