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Health Promotion has practical focus on health and well being. A main feature of the discipline is its recognition that health is more than individual physical and mental well-being or fitness, but incorporates overall social factors such as the degree of equality and social support. The concept of health is very complex, therefore health promotion draws upon many different strategies and disciplines to improve the health of individuals and communities and the population on the whole, these may include sociology, social psychology, education and communication, economics, ethics and epidemiology (Bunton and MacDonald, 1992). The concept of health promotion is exceptionally broad and appears to include any attempt to improve health. The term was first introduced in 1974 by the Canadian Minister of Health, Marc Lalonde, who suggested that there where different elements that contributed to the public's health. (Marc Lalonde 1974) believed these to be, human biology (genetics and hereditary...

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