Health Promotion aims to help people to live healthy lives. It involves increasing people�s knowledge and awareness, enabling them to take actions to improve their health, and ensuring that the circumstances allow them to make healthy choices.

Health Promotion includes:
Health Education
Developing personal skills
Strengthening community action
Reorienting health services
Building healthy public policy
Creating supportive environments

The Department of Health Promotion at WHO
provides a Health Promotion Glossary with core definitions.

The International Institute of Health Promotion gives an overview of what Health Promotion incorporates: Health Protection, Health Education and Prevention.