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26 maj 2024 · Beyond fighting disease, we will work to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, leaving no-one behind. Our target is 1 billion more people enjoying better health and well-being by 2023.
- Health Promotion
In addition to ongoing advocacy efforts, the emphasis of...
- Physical Activity
Regular physical activity is proven to help prevent and...
- Ageing
Ageing presents both challenges and opportunities. It will...
- Nutrition
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- Child Health
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Kong Special Administrative Region), Dr Susan Mercado...
- Health Promotion
We work to enhance people’s wellbeing and reduce their health risks associated with tobacco use, alcohol consumption and physical inactivity, thereby contributing to better population health. We develop and implement cross-cutting normative, fiscal and legal measures and capacity development tools.
20 sie 2016 · What is health promotion? Health promotion enables people to increase control over their own health. It covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions that are designed to benefit and protect individual people’s health and quality of life by addressing and preventing the root causes of ill health, not just focusing on treatment ...
The medical health paradigm focuses mainly on individuals, is disease-oriented and underpins calls for equitable access to treatment and care for all. Preventive approaches are risk-oriented and based on prevention for populations and communities. Health promotion includes a focus on society and the
As with other public health functions, the ultimate goal of health promotion is to improve health outcomes and well-being for populations and communities, including improvements across quality of life, function, independence, equity, mortality and morbidity.
Promoting healthier populations is the third strategic priority of the WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work, 2019–2025, which has as its target 1 billion more people enjoying better health and well-being by the end of 2025.
to strengthen health promotion and disease prevention through high-impact public policies, based on scientific evidence and best available knowledge, across sectors, developed through participatory processes; to strengthen health systems and to address health determinants and reduce risk factors, including through appropriate regulation; and to ...
