Strategy To Promote Health Promotion

Strategy to promote health promotion

Introduction:

Its objective is the analysis of the strategies implemented by the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador (MSP), to promote health promotion, in the development of healthy environments and improving the quality of life.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights bases that "everyone has adequate life that ensures it, as well as their family, their health and well -being". So the promotion of health, takes a main role in the generation of knowledge and strengthenings of skills and skills about their integral and collective health and in the formulation of public policy taking into account the social and environmental determinants that influence health. 

Health promotion encompasses a wide range of social and environmental interventions in order to favor and protect health and quality of life, through the prevention and solution of the primary causes of health conditions, without centralizing only in theHealing treatments. In Ecuador, health promotion strategies are mainly aimed at groups considered risks (mothers, children, elders). It should be noted that your approach is closely related to disease prevention and control.

The Organic Law of the National Health System raises a model of care highlighting primary care and health promotion, continuous and coordinated processes of care of people and their environment, with decentralized, decentralized and participatory action systems. Developing in labor, family and community environments, promoting interrelation with traditional and alternative medicine.

The World Health Organization (WHO), defines health promotion as “process which allows people to increase control over their health”, in basic terms, health promotion is responsible for generating changes in theenvironment, in order to help promote and protect health. These changes include modifications in communities and systems. 

"Health promotion consists in facilitating peoples the necessary means to improve their health and exercise greater control over it".

It has as objectives:

1. · Influence the social determination of health
2. · Changes in conditions and lifestyles
3. · Influence public policy decisions
4. Improve health and quality of life in populations
5. · Fight for equity and social justice.

Developing

In the country they have taken theoretical basis for the development of health promotion, prioritizing changes in lifestyle and socio-political action. Which has allowed to express a legal and legal framework in the country, which promotes the political approach of health, integrated into reform 28. In the political agenda the importance of health begins to be reflected in the local development plans of some municipalities of the “Clean Municipalities” movement, these have achieved achievements in decentralization, social participation and intersectoral work. (1)

The vision of the National Directorate for Health Promotion is to propose, promote and ensure the implementation of policies and strategies for life cycles, which affect social determinants of health, politics, spaces, spaces and healthy conditions for good livingof the population. 

Chronic non -transmitible (ECNT) diseases are a public health problem, due to socio -economic damage at the local and world level, which occur in the people who suffer from them. The International Diabetes Federation in 2015 worldwide, 415 million adults between 20 and 79 years were diagnosed with diabetes. Which leads them to estimate that by 2040 in the world 642 million people live with this disease. The most common causes for diabetes are: poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, overweight and obesity, tobacco and alcohol consumption;Excessive salt consumption, sugar, saturated fats and trans fatty acids.

The MSP manages health promotion and protection programs, which include: maternal-infantile health, healthy child inspection, timely detection of cervical cancer, immunizations, epidemiological control and surveillance, etc. It promotes the improvement of the environmental environment and strengthening of psychosocial and cultural environments, through management programs and projects. Likewise, he is directing the development of the Initiative of Healthy Schools with the support of the Ministry of Education, and the development of healthy municipalities together with the Association of Municipalities of Ecuador (AME).

Agite your world is a health promotion strategy, which is aimed at private sector employees and public sector officials, seeks a change in attitude with the purpose of:

• Avoid sedentary lifestyle
• Implement good food
• Reject the consumption of harmful products
• Boost environmental care
• Prioritize mental, sexual and reproductive health.

Starting with informing about the impact of healthy actions that can be carried out in the work space.(5)

The Universal Human Rights Declaration cites that "all people are entitled to an adequate standard of living that ensures them, as well as their family, their health and well -being". Therefore, the promotion of health, I take a main role in the generation of knowledge and strengthenings of skills and skills about their integral and collective health and in the formulation of public policy taking into account the social and environmental determinants that influence theHealth. (6)

MATERIAL AND METHODS

For the development of the Bibliography review, a systematic study of documents, articles, study manuals of both the Ministry of Public Health and the WHO / PAHS, on the subject to be discussed. Mainly analyzing the objectives of the promotion of health in WHO / PAHA articles, generating doubts about how Ecuador handles the problem and what is its strategic plan to carry it out, which led to the study of the strategies that were generated asThey are: the intersectoral plan for food and nutrition, breastfeeding, agitates your world, national program of healthy municipalities, etc. These analyzes were carried out in documents with five years before and in Spanish. In total, 24 bibliographic sources were selected between them primary sources, secondary and an interview.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The analysis of national legislation regarding health promotion is oriented to the five areas of action of the Ottawa Charter:

1. Public policy approach to health

two. Establish support environments both in their physical and social dimensions

3. Strengthen the community actions of social participation

4. Personal skills development

5. Reorientation of health services.

Comprehensive prevention program for the use and consumption of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in work spaces

Its objective is the prevention and reduction of the use and consumption of tobacco alcohol and other drugs in the workers of public and private institutions and institutions, through actions and strategies for the approach and comprehensive care in working spaces, adapting life habitshealthy.Avoiding the consumption of harmful substances, positively helps in interpersonal relationships, because being in healthy state favors interact with others, generating a good work environment, resulting in greater productivity.

The Ministry of Public Health, as stated in the previous table, can be demonstrated that several plans, strategic programs have generated to promote health, benefiting the groups considered risk that are (mothers, infants and the elderly), theWhich MSP is mainly based to generate these plans, additionally health promotion, not only benefits risk groups, but generally to all, so it seeks to create healthy environments and environments for all the Ecuadorian population.

CONCLUSION

Health promotion consists in facilitating peoples the necessary means to improve their health and exercise greater control over it. Therefore, the MSP generates several strategic planes by centralizing in vulnerable groups (mothers, infants and the elderly), as well as the rest of the population. 

For the mother and newborn group, it generates the breastfeeding program, in order to inform about the importance of it and help in the infant’s nutrition, so it tries to direct the prevalence of breastfeeding exclusively the firstSix months of life. Another strategies was the healthy eating promotion in the National Education System, aiming to decrease obesity and overweight cases, in children and young people, etc.

It can be concluded that the main objective of the MSP regarding health promotion, seeks to generate changes for the population in order to prevent diseases, providing healthy environments (clean municipalities), quality of life (physical activity) and reorient services (Healthy hospitals)

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