Practice, Principles and Philosophy

Practice, Principles and Philosophy: "Health Promotion is a term that has been applied to a wide range of approaches to improving health of people, communities and populations. In this paper, SHEPS is providing a clear vision of contemporary health promotion. The ‘umbrella’ picture identifies a range of elements of health promotion. Members of SHEPS fulfil a wide range of health promoting roles. But whatever the particular focus of our health promotion work, we believe that health promotion needs to be grounded in firm principles and philosophy. Built on these, the foundations of health promotion are its evidence and theory and these support a range of competencies and capacities. These in turn support a range of health promotion practices and processes. "/.../