Health Promotion Concept: Substance Abuse

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This paper explains the concept of health promotion, its objectives, how it can be implemented, and some of the drawbacks inherent in the concept itself and its implementation. The paper then focuses on the lack of success health promotion has had in treating communities with high rates of substance abuse and the reasons for this failure.

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"The concept of Health Promotion suggests that if the necessary precautions are taken there can be a measure of control over health problems. The process of health promotion is embedded in the belief that through the increase in knowledge of the disease there can be an enhancement to the solution and thus, health services can help in 'reducing risk of ill-health through the overlapping spheres of health education, heath protection and disease prevention' (Tannahill 1985). The underlying theory to this process is that once the health services create a basis of understanding for the population effected by the problem they can help guide the population towards the control."

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