Health Promotion Strategies To Achieve A Healthy Community

The basic level of health promotion is the individual level. All other levels of promoting community health such as social, organizational, and national are founded on individuals. Thus, influencing the behavior of an individual is the most effective approach to achieve a healthy community. In addition, most health care employees spend much time and effort interacting with individuals, such as education and counseling, hence, they are well positioned to influence individual health behaviors in a community (Lundy &Janes, 2009). Nevertheless, other factors such as social structures and ethnicity play a significant role in promotion of community health and change of health behavior. Differences that are marked by incidence of diseases among various ethnic groups could possibly mask variability of socio-economic elements that are possibly more important determinants of disease incidences than ethnicity. Secondly, self-determined ethnic groups normally experience alterations over time. As a result, the routine sources of information or data based on the group become non-comparable. Thirdly, by conducting research based on the minorities in the society, which lays emphasis on the negative perspectives, the researchers deflect the attention of these groups from their well-being priorities (Bell, 2012). Moreover, they damage their social status …show more content…
The aggregate health prosperity of communities could be cultivated by making structures and approaches that back healthy lifestyles. Furthermore by minimizing or eradicating hazards in social and physical surroundings. Social level approach is a strategy, which focuses on how social health frameworks operate and change, and how communities and institutions could be influenced to adopt healthy behaviors and