Health promotion in the context of National Health Programme to 2015
Journal Title: Progress in Health Sciences - Year 2012, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
In 1998 on the World Health Assembly there was approved that health is one of the fundamental rights of the human being. Human health depends on many interrelated factors, among which the most important is lifestyle. For this reason, efforts to improve public health should be focused on health promotion, including health education and prevention. Health promotion is defined as the process of enabling people to increase control over their health by making choices and decisions conducive to health. Improving the health and the life quality are the primary goals of the Polish National Health Programme for 2007-2015. This article presents the specific objectives of the Polish National Health Programme in the context of health promotion, including among others, the reduction of tobacco distribution, alcohol consumption, nutrition improvement and physical activity increase among Polish population.
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U Religioni, A Czerw
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