Health promotion in the process of enabling people to increase control over, the determinants of their health and thereby improve their health. Health promotion represents a comprehensive process, it not only embraces actions directed at strengthening the skills and capabilities of individuals, but also action directed towards changing social, environmental and economic conditions so as to alleviate their impact on public and individual health. Empowerment approoaches including psychological empowerment of individuals, organizational empowerment and community empowerment are a key to reframing health promotion activities. Studies have examined five areas of health promotion strategies are covered. These are: 1-Individual empowerment (health education, health literacy), 2-Community empowerment, 3-Health system strengthening, 4 - inter-sectoral cooperation in order to build a healthy community policies, 5-Enhancing the capacity of health promotion. In this study, every strategy of health promotion was explained based on the interventions.
Key words: Health promotion, strategies, interventions Article Language: Turkish English
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