Health Promotion and Prevention of Diseases. Preventing Strategies
Health Promotion and Prevention of Diseases. Preventing Strategies

Summary/Abstract: Health concept, defined by World Health Organization, is about a “good physical, psychic and social state“. Health has three big dimensions: biological (or physical), psychological and social. Health expresses the person’s capacities to adapt at the natural and social environment. Work, as a specific human modality to adapt at the environment, is also the most eloquent criterion to assess the health’s status, putting under condition the biological status and also the social integration. Public health is the ensemble of knowledge, skills and attitudes oriented toward maintaining and improving population’s health. The activities for health promoting imply: *a unified concept for those who admit the fundamental need to change both the life style and life conditions; *a mediating strategy between individuals and environment, combining the personal choice with social responsibility with the purpose to assure a healthier future; *a new strategy in the domain of health and social services who can be looked, on one hand, as a policy because aim the government’s action line in health domain and, on the other hand, as an approach who favour health because is orientated towards life styles. The main programs and sub-programs for health promoting, financed by the state budget and managed by the Public Health Ministry, are: * Public health community program * Surveillance and control for transmissible diseases; * Surveillance and control for HIV/AIDS infection; * Surveillance and control in Tuberculosis; * Evaluating health status and risk factors; * Health promoting and education for health; * Hematology and transfusion security. The main factor for promoting health is education for health. He concerns in the transmission and assimilation for those information which assure the cognitive base for the decisions regarding health, training some attitudes as base for a behavior in favor of health. Preventing strategies address maintaining in a good healthy state during all life, aim to establish some measures necessary to change life style thru elimination of risk factors. Changing life style is the first step, important and compulsory, which allowed establishment of the life status and who involve more actions such as: Quit smoking, Fighting against sedentary lifestyles, Obesity management, Nutritional habits, Stress management, Assistance for employee, Education for health.

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