Health Promotion Forum

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Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating a Health Promotion activity Introduction: This essay will give a systematic account of a Health Promotion (HP) activity, which was focused on the awareness of stress and its prevention. It will analyse the assessment of the health need and how the activity was planned, implemented and then evaluated to determine if the anticipated outcome was achieved. The World Health Organization (WHO, 1948) defined health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. In 1986, it added that health is a resource for everyday life, and not the objective of living, a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities (WHO, 1986). However, Seedhouse (1986) suggested that health can best be described as providing the foundation by which human achievement can be attained; it is an instrument, agency, method, or course of action employed to attain some object or bring about some benefiting results, rather than a fixed condition or status, to which someone might aspire so that, with the appropriate resources, people are more easily enabled to achieve their potential. Suggested definition of Health Promotion: According to WHO (1986), Health Promotion (HP) is the process that enables and encourages people to have an effective control of their lifestyle in order to improve their health. It argues that in order to reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy life-styles to well-being. Assessment of health needs-consider why this is important The National

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