Health promotion

What does health promotion mean? The World Health Organization provided a well-known definition for that as well:

""Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health." (WHO 1986).

This guiding principle has been applied in our project about skin diseases and sexually transmitted diseases. Thus the pupils will be able to learn and to make experiences how to improve their health on some areas of health at their choice.

In the so-called Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986), the WHO suggests three basic action strategies and five key action areas for Health Promotion.

		The three action strategies of Health Promotion are: to advocate, to enable and to mediate. These three action strategies are described in further detail on the WHO website. Please access the site here.
		The WHO identifies as the five key action areas for Health Promotion: 1. Build Healthy Public Policy, 2. Create Supportive Environments, 3. Strengthen Community Actions, 4. Develop Personal Skills and 5. Reorient Health Services. These five key action areas are described in detail on the WHO website. Please access the site here.

The action area „Develop Personal Skills“ is especially important for deducting a mission in the field of education for health. The Ottawa Charter explains that „Health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health and enhancing life skills.”