KINE 3645 Chapter : Health Promo - reading 1 .docx

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 3645
• Professor: Rebecca Bassett

Document Summary

Create supportive environments: our societies are complex and interrelated, health cannot be separated from other goals, the overall guiding principle for the world, nations, regions and our communities alike, is the need to encourage reciprocal maintenance to take care of eachother, our communities and our natural environment, the way society organizes work should help create a healthy society, health promotion generates living and working conditions that are safe, simulating, satisfying and enjoyable, the protection of the natural and build environments and the conservation of natural resources must be addressed in any health promotion strategy. Develop personal skills: health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health and enhancing life skills, it increases the options available to people to exercise more control over their own health and over their environments, and to make choices conductive to health, action is required through educational, professional, commercial and voluntary bodies and within the institutions themselves.