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HealthCareOz is about Health Promotion

Health promotion is a process towards enabling people to take action.

The purpose of this process is to strengthen the skills and capabilities of individuals to take action and the capacity of groups or communities to act collectively to exert control over the determinants of health and achieve positive change.

Health is a resource for life that enables people to lead individually, socially and economically productive lives. It is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources (physical, mental and spiritual).

It has long been acknowledged that there are certain prerequisites for health that include peace, adequate economic resources (and their distribution), food and shelter, clean water, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resource use, and access to basic human rights. The challenge to meet these fundamental needs must remain a core goal for all action directed towards health, social and economic development.