What is a Health Promotion?
Health promotion programs aim to engage and empower individuals and communities to choose healthy behaviors, and make changes that reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases and other health problems.
Typical strategies for health promotion, disease prevention, and wellness programs include:
- Communication: Raising awareness about healthy behaviors for the general public. Examples of communication strategies include press releases, health fairs, mass media campaigns, and newsletters.
- Education: Empowering behavior change and actions through increased knowledge. Examples of health education strategies include courses, trainings, and support groups.
- Policy, Systems, and Environment: Making changes to conditions — through improved laws, rules, and regulations (policy), functional organizational components (systems), and economic, social, or physical environment — to encourage, make available, and enable healthy choices.
You can learn more about Health Promotion by visiting the Rural Health Information Hub.
The Health Promotion Division works to promote health and improve population health outcomes in Defiance County. The division works closely with coalitions and partners to use evidence based interventions to meet goals, and try to address Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). Working together to improve SDOH will help produce healthier and safer communities for all.
Division work is informed by data and reports including but not limited to: the Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan; Defiance County General Health District’s (DCGHD) Strategic Plan; Defiance County Health Equity Report; the Public Health Accreditation Board’s Standards & Measures.
The Director of Health Promotion serves as a liaison between DCHD and the Public Health Services Council of Ohio (PHSCO). PHSCO contracts with DCHD to provide an Emergency Planner. The Emergency Planner provides services identified by DCHD staff, or as required by grants and state regulation.
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