National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW)

Health Promotion Measures

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About the Course

Purpose: The term, health promotion measures, refers to all those measures, which are taken in order to promote good health. While communicable diseases can be prevented through direct interventions like vaccinations and chemoprophylaxis, the prevention of non-communicable diseases can be dealt with health promotion. In this context, managers of public health systems owe a responsibility to encourage the communities in their area to adopt measures for promoting good health.

Time: Two hours

Author: Dr. A.K. Sood, Head of Education and Training Department, and Dean, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi. In over three decades of his teaching career, Dr Sood has published more than 105 research articles, and co-authored the book “Contemporary Public Health – Policy, Planning and Management” for Apothecaries Foundation, New Delhi, in 2005.