Health promotion for the chronic patients

Abstract

DEFINITION OF HEALTH PROMOTION, HEALTH BEHAVIOR, AND HEALTH EDUCATION O'Donnell(1989) defined health promotion as science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal Lifestyle change can be facilitated by a combination of efforts to enhance awareness, change behavior, and create environment that support good health practice. Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion defines health promotion as process of enabling people to increase control over, helping people to cope with their circumstances, and creating environments conducive to health, in which people become more able to take care of themselves. (Epp, 1986). Recently Green and Kreuter (1991) defined the health promotion as any combination of health education and related organizational, economic, and environmental supports for behavior change of individuals, groups, or communities conducive to health. Health education covers the continuum from disease prevention and promotion of optimal health to the detection of illness to treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term care. Health behavior is the central concern of health promotion and one of the most important factors of disease, since over 50% of chronic diseases are potentially preventable. Avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and drugs; stopping smoke; conducting exercise or controlling body weight; self-management of and cope with their illness are all health behaviors aimed at health promotion in a variety of settings including schools, worksites, clinical sites, and communities.