Health Promotion

Health Promotion is the skill and knowledge of helping people find out how to enhance their enthusiasm to make every effort for optimal health, and supporting them in changing their way of life to move toward a state of optimal health. Optimal health is a forceful balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health. Lifestyle change can be made possible through an amalgamation of learning experiences that enhance understanding, increase inspiration, and build expertise and, most importantly, to create environment through the formation of prospects that open ways to environments that make constructive health activities the easiest option.( www.publichealthy.com)
In the medicinal field there are various forms of medical practices. They may be thought of generally as forming a hierarchal structure, with three levels representing growing degrees of specialty and technical superiority but serving diminishing numbers of patients as they are moved through the system towards a lower level. Only those patients who need special care either for opinion or treatment are able to reach the secondary (recommended) or tertiary (expert treatment) levels where the care cost of service becomes more and more high. The first level embodies primary health care, or first contact care, at which patients have their first contact with the health-care system (www.britanica.com).
Primary health care is an essential part of a nation’s health preservation system, of which it forms the major and the most important part. As illustrated in the declaration of Alma-Ata, primary health care should be practical and socially acceptable methods made equally available to all individuals and families (AH&MRC, 1999). Primary health care in the urbanized countries is usually the domain of a medically competent physician while in the developing countries first