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Evidence Based Health promotion Health promotion has emerged in the last decade as an important force to improve both quality and quantity of people's lives. Sometimes termed 'the new public health' it seeks to support and encourage a participative social movement that enables individuals and communities to take control over their own health. (Bunton,R & Macdonald,G 1992) Health promotion plays an important part in everybody's life and the lives our children and our children's children. The purpose of this assignment is to discuss and give justification for evidence based health promotion, some people may ask why we need evidence based health promotion and practice, this paper goes some way to identifying the answer to this question. Health promotion can be defined in may ways, as defined by the World Health Organisation health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health. (www.who.int accessed November 2007) Tannahill...

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