The range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors which determine the health status of individuals or populations.
WHO Health Promotion Glossary, 1998
Health education is not only concerned with the communication of information, but also with fostering the motivation, skills and confidence (self-efficacy) necessary to take action to improve health. Health education includes the communication of information concerning the underlying social, economic and environmental conditions impacting on health, as well as individual risk factors and risk behaviours and use of the health system.
WHO Health Promotion Glossary, 1998
Health communication is a key strategy to inform the public about health concerns and to maintain important health issues on the public agenda. The use of the mass and multi media and other technological innovations to disseminate useful health information to the public, increases awareness of specific aspects of individual and collective health as well as importance of health in development.
WHO Health Promotion Glossary, 1998
A recognized relationship between part or parts of different sectors of society which has been formed to take action on an issue to achieve health outcomes or intermediate health outcomes in a way which is more effective, efficient or sustainable than might be achieved by the health sector acting alone.
WHO Health Promotion Glossary, 1998
Health literacy was originally defined as a functional capacity related to basic literacy skills and how these affect the ability of people to access and use health information. In recent years, the definition of health literacy has expanded to include higher order cognitive and social capacities that develop along a gradient of increasingly complex and interactive skills, and that relate to personal and collective empowerment.
By extending the concept of health literacy to include the skills and abilities that humans use to create meaning from and exert control over the environment, the revised definition brings health literacy into the domain of health promotion and situates it within a population health model.