Editorial--health education and health promotion.

Editorial--health education and health promotion.

SIR As pointed out in your recent editorial (1) my contribution to the 1984 'controversy' defended not health promotion in all its many guises, but rather one particular interpretation of it (2). I was suggesting that there is a model of health promotion (elaborated upon elsewhere (3) which included health education at its best (no doubt of the type of which Gill Williams 'approves'), and where...

Health Education and Health Promotion

health education and health promotion

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Health education and health promotion.

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...