Health promotion – strategies and topics Educating the students from nursing and optometry department

The citizens claim the right to get a high level access to the health services including the health promotion fields. The health professionals aim to prevent illnesses, to reduce morbidity and premature mortality and need to increase the community awareness on the fact that it is cheaper preventing than curing. In this view, addressing youngsters represents a powerful investment in the future and the essence of real health prevention. Also, trained students from nursing and optometry department could be a key for developing successful health promotion activities in the community. Usually, in most of the universities all over the world, nursing and optometrist students may never get appropriate training in health promotion. Also, the present health professionals do not have enough knowledge in health promotion especially in the newest well-being standards. The paper tries to develop a common curriculum in adolescent health promotion topics, for students studying in two completely different faculties (medicine and mechanical engineering) started from a study on the adolescent problems developed in nursing and optometry department. Accordingly, we will try to pay attention to adolescent health promotion curriculum, related to ethical dilemma, adolescents’ needs and rights.