Focus on Health 11th Edition by Dale Hahn,Wayne Payne ,Ellen Lucas

Question

Focus on Health 11th Edition by Dale Hahn,Wayne Payne ,Ellen Lucas

Edition 11ISBN: 978-0073529738

Focus on Health 11th Edition by Dale Hahn,Wayne Payne ,Ellen Lucas

Edition 11ISBN: 978-0073529738

Exercise 1

What does the term empowerment mean, and how would it appear as a component of a group-centered community-based health promotion program?

Explanation

Verified

Preventive or prospective medicine is a field of medical care which is centred or focused at physician. This field of medical care identifies the areas for chronic illnesses in order to reduce them. It considers that prevention is better than cure; thereby, contradicting the principles of episodic health care.
The use of preventive or prospective medicine has been considered to empower personal sense of people. The term 'empowerment', in this context, means that the ability of an individual to be responsible for their own health and well-being is nurtured. It allows an individual to lead a healthy, productive, and satisfying life.
Health promotion means to transmit knowledge, practices, and values to people so that they can utilize them for reducing the risk of illnesses and improving their health and well-being. In group-oriented health promotion, empowerment of community groups is used for improving health and reducing risk to various health problems.