Institute of Addiction and Mental Health Studies for Journalists - Health Promotion

Health promotion is a comprehensive approach that enables individuals, families and communities to take control over and improve their mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health. Vital components of an effective health promotion approach include improving the determinants of health (e.g., housing, employment, income, social supports), developing healthy public policies, and implementing programs to decrease the factors that put us at risk for substance use problems or mental illness and to increase factors that protect us from harm.

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