Health promotion
Introduction:
Everyone is unique in their own way in relation to health and sickness. Not one person on earth is absolutely healthy or totally sick. The perception of health differs from one and another. According to World Health Organization (WHO) (1948), health is “… a state completes physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity…” In globalization era now, the healthy lifestyle of people also change. Health promotion is being introduced to create best solutions in improving the health quality among people. This not only meant for the patient in hospital but also the community at large. Based on Naidoo and Wills (2009:62) health promotion can be defined:
Enabling individuals and groups to have a say in how their health us promoted and valuing their personal, perspective; supporting people to take greater control over their health
In addition, health promotion does save costs on medical treatment that individuals or government would have spent. This is due to the fact that it promotes prevention rather than cure (Public Health, 2008). Health is universal and includes different dimensions that will impact a way of one person. The dimensions of health are further divided into physical, mental, emotional, social sexual, spiritual, environmental and global (Naidoo and Wills, 2009). A good way of healthy life practice is introduced via the Malaysian Health Promotion Board (MySihat) associated with Ministry of Health. This allows them to come up with the new plan of health promotion so that a healthy society can be created (MySihat, 2013). During the first International conference on health promotion held in Ottawa, Canada 1986 the Ottawa Charter for health promotion is created. The Charter identifies the three basic fundamentals in improving on health which are advocacy, enabling and mediating. The five important keys in the health action areas preferred by the Charter are to build healthy public policy, creates
Everyone is unique in their own way in relation to health and sickness. Not one person on earth is absolutely healthy or totally sick. The perception of health differs from one and another. According to World Health Organization (WHO) (1948), health is “… a state completes physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity…” In globalization era now, the healthy lifestyle of people also change. Health promotion is being introduced to create best solutions in improving the health quality among people. This not only meant for the patient in hospital but also the community at large. Based on Naidoo and Wills (2009:62) health promotion can be defined:
Enabling individuals and groups to have a say in how their health us promoted and valuing their personal, perspective; supporting people to take greater control over their health
In addition, health promotion does save costs on medical treatment that individuals or government would have spent. This is due to the fact that it promotes prevention rather than cure (Public Health, 2008). Health is universal and includes different dimensions that will impact a way of one person. The dimensions of health are further divided into physical, mental, emotional, social sexual, spiritual, environmental and global (Naidoo and Wills, 2009). A good way of healthy life practice is introduced via the Malaysian Health Promotion Board (MySihat) associated with Ministry of Health. This allows them to come up with the new plan of health promotion so that a healthy society can be created (MySihat, 2013). During the first International conference on health promotion held in Ottawa, Canada 1986 the Ottawa Charter for health promotion is created. The Charter identifies the three basic fundamentals in improving on health which are advocacy, enabling and mediating. The five important keys in the health action areas preferred by the Charter are to build healthy public policy, creates