Jan Hingson
Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion
December 21, 2013

“Health promotion is the process of enabling people to discover their core passions and optimal health, enhancing their motivation, gaining control over, and improving their health while changing their lifestyle.”(WHO 2005.) It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior and in the direction of a wide range of social and environmental interventions. Health promotion are for the prevention of communicable diseases, with the correlated intentions put into education, community development, policy, legislative, and regulation, are justly valid for prevention of communicable diseases, injury, violence, and mental problems.
Health promotion is attempt to modify social factors, and society norms. It is intended to help the less fortunate or uneducated and give them the empowerment to change their lives. Health promotion is used as a key factor with each client to teach ways and adjustments in their everyday life to improve their health. Improving lifestyles not only allows for a healthier life but for a happier life. Encountered will be less hospital visits and stays, less doctor visits, and less of a medication regimen possibly.
Health promotion serves as a comprehensive social and political movement. Its actions are directed towards changing social, environmental and economic status to alleviate their impact on public and individual health, as well as to encourage activities directed towards strengthening the abilities and competence of individuals. Health promotion is therefore the process of enabling people to take control over the root cause of their health and thereby better their health.
Nursing roles and obligations are expanding in the health care setting. Health improving methods carried out by nursing practices offer instances for health promotion,