...cultural environments (the "total" environment) which enhance health. . . . Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health, (p. 2) This second definition of health promotion emphasizes social reform. This definition was expanded...

...by, health professionals. Child health promotion programmes Health promotion 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 well-being. The aim of health promotion in...

...Defined The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health promotion in its broadest sense as "the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health." Health promotion is seen as a continuum ranging from the treatment of disease, to the prevention of...

...and their social environment. The Charter was grounded in the philosophy of health promotion, "the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health" (WHO, HWC, CPHA 1986:426), and called for a reduction in inequities through the strengthening of community...

...of individual and community efforts as a means to achieve optimal 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 well-being, an individual or group must be...

...and organizational health development. The World Health Organization defines health promotion as: The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. I offer the following working definition of health education: An essential facet of health promotion,...

...philosophy of health promotion. Health promotion is defined by the World Health Organization (1984) as 'the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health'. Ewles and Simnett (1992) understand health promotion as an umbrella term which includes health education...

...presence of optimal physical, mental and social well-being. Health promotion has been defined as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. Taken in this wider context, health promotion is seen as a continuum of activities ranging from management...

...health-related behaviour. As a reflection of this, health promotion has come to be described as 'the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health' (World Health Organization (WHO), 1984). Achieving health through exercise and fitness has been central...

...1994), are reflected in the World Health Organization's (WHO) (1986, 1) definition of health promotion as "a process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health." And that definition is replacing older conceptualizations of health promotion that focused on "individual...