Determinants Of Health Promotion

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Health promotion and prevention of NCDs: The paradigm of NCD prevention is considered as a multidisciplinary one. It calls for a diverse range of actions involving policy development, legislation, regulation, public and professional education, guideline development, media interventions and research. These are primarily directed towards tobacco control, unhealthy diet and physical activity taking in into accounts of current scenario in the country. Monitoring and evaluation are planned to be woven into this framework, making it necessary to institute a combination of measures and interventions at multiple levels. Finally, this first ever initiative in Bangladesh is formalizing a broader platform of players for combating the major NCDs including injury, mental health and blindness with a view to ensure optimum health of the people. VIII 6.1 Health promotion Activities | | Educational support to national health programmes has been provided by the Health Education Bureau (HEB). Emphasis has been given in recent years to school health education, hospital health education and coordination with NGOs. Constraints include the lack of a national IEC strategy, the low priority given to health education by the health services, underutilization of health education officers, and lack of opportunities for professional advancement of those working in health education. Some issues under consideration are the inclusion of a health education component in the new national health policy and strengthening of coordination among the HEB, ongoing government health programmes and NGOs. From 17 October,2011 to 20 October,2011 Climate Change and Health Promotion Unit (CCHPU) organized 'District Level Training of Health Professionals about Climate Change and Health Promotion' in Bagerhat district. The four day long training programme held in the Sadar Upazilla Training

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