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Health promotion in Nepalese context

Health promotion in Nepalese context Increasing health awareness and developing positive attitudes and behavior towards healthier living is still a crucial need of the people to cope an alarming health problem like communicable and non-communicable diseases, which are still the leading causes of morbidity and mortality of the people. Emerging diseases such as Japanese Encephalitis, Viral Hepatitis and STD including HIV/AIDS pose increasing threats to the health and well being of the people of the country. Tobacco use, excess use of alcohol, inadequate physical activity, obesity, improper food habit and polluted environment has significant role in increasing burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in the nation. Similarly, mental health, oral health, hearing impairment, blindness, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, hypertension, malignancies and problems of elderly are the health issues that need to be addressed effectively by controlling and reducing risk factors and other

History of Public health in world

History of Public health in world Introduction Health promotion has been defined by the 2005 Bangkok charter for Health Promotion in Globalized World as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health”. Means of health promotion include health education and social marketing. The "first and best known" definition of health promotion, promulgated by the American Journal of Health Promotion since at least 1986, is "the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health”. This definition was derived from the 1974 Lalonde report from the Government of Canada, which contained a health promotion strategy "aimed at informing, influencing and assisting both individuals and organizations so that they will accept more responsibility and be more active in matters affecting mental and physical health. Another predecessor of the definition was the 1979