Health promotion is the process of enabling individuals and communities to increase control over and improve their health, extending beyond disease prevention to the active cultivation of wellbeing through education, behaviour change, supportive environments and policy. Articulated in frameworks such as the Ottawa C…
Health promotion is the process of enabling individuals and communities to increase control over and improve their health, extending beyond disease prevention to the active cultivation of wellbeing through education, behaviour change, supportive environments and policy. Articulated in frameworks such as the Ottawa Charter, it operates across multiple levels, from building healthy public policy and creating supportive settings to strengthening community action, developing personal skills and reorienting health services toward prevention. Core strategies include promoting physical activity, healthy diet, tobacco and substance avoidance, mental-health promotion, and improving compliance and engagement with preventive care. Research grounded here examines community-based mentoring and coaching schemes for children, mental-health promotion through global opinion data, the use of tactile contact to improve compliance with health messages, partnerships between public-health functions and social services, culturally informed management of overweight and obesity, tobacco-control roadmaps, and the health of older populations. As a central component of preventive medicine, health promotion emphasises upstream determinants, empowerment and the integration of behavioural, social and environmental approaches. Core considerations include intervention design, reach and effectiveness, equity, and the translation of promotion activities into sustained behaviour change. The journal publishes peer-reviewed studies on health-promotion interventions and their effectiveness, spanning behaviour change, community programmes, mental-health promotion and the settings and partnerships through which healthy behaviours are fostered.
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 12 articles above have been cited 139 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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