Pati Sanghamitra, Sharma Kavya, Zodpey Sanjay, Chauhan Kavita, Dobe Madhumita
Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar, India.
Glob J Health Sci. 2012 Jun 24;4(4):159-67. doi: 10.5539/gjhs.v4n4p159.
'Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health'. This stream of public health is emerging as a critical domain within the realm of disease prevention. Over the last two decades, the curative model of health care has begun a subtle shift towards a participatory model of health promotion emphasizing upon practice of healthy lifestyles and creating healthy communities. Health promotion encompasses five key strategies with health communication and education as its cornerstones. Present study is an attempt to explore the current situation of health promotion education in India with an aim to provide a background for capacity building in health promotion. A systematic predefined method was adopted to collect and compile information on existing academic programs pertaining to health promotion and health education/communication. Results of the study reveal that currently health promotion education in India is fragmented and not uniform across institutes. It is yet to be recognized as a critical domain of public health education. Mostly teaching of health promotion is limited to health education and communication. There is a need for designing programmes for short-term and long-term capacity building, with focus on innovative methods and approaches. Public health institutes and associations could play a proactive role in designing and imparting academic programs on health promotion. Enhancing alliances with various institutes involved in health promotion activities and networking among public health and medical institutes as well as health services delivery systems would be more productive.
“健康促进是使人们能够增强对自身健康的控制并改善健康状况的过程”。这一公共卫生领域正在成为疾病预防领域中的一个关键范畴。在过去二十年里，医疗保健的治愈模式已开始悄然向强调健康生活方式实践和创建健康社区的参与式健康促进模式转变。健康促进包含以健康沟通与教育为基石的五项关键策略。本研究旨在探索印度健康促进教育的现状，以期为健康促进领域的能力建设提供背景资料。我们采用了一种系统的预定义方法来收集和编纂有关现有健康促进及健康教育/沟通学术项目的信息。研究结果显示，目前印度的健康促进教育呈现碎片化，各机构之间并不统一。它尚未被视为公共卫生教育的一个关键领域。健康促进的教学大多局限于健康教育和沟通。有必要设计短期和长期能力建设项目，重点关注创新方法和途径。公共卫生机构和协会可以在设计和传授健康促进学术项目方面发挥积极作用。加强与参与健康促进活动的各机构的联盟，以及公共卫生和医疗机构及卫生服务提供系统之间的网络联系，将更有成效。
