Positive Health Promotion: Orienting Health Promotion within a Wellness Framework to Improve Public Health Quality
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Peterson, Travis
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Public Health Leadership Program
- Abstract
- While health professions often purport a multidimensional and holistic view of health, these views typically do not translate into practice. In public health, best practices are not positioned to lead population-based approaches focused on a holistic perspective of health. The public health field continues largely to emphasize physical constructs and health problems rather than positive health dimensions. In order to move toward an authentic adoption of holistic health, two things need to happen: (1) more focus on a full range of health domains in proportion to physical health, and (2) a greater emphasis on optimum health versus health problems across all domains. Health promotion efforts oriented toward wellness offer a context for shifting health approaches towards a positive framework for optimal health. The purpose of this paper is to advance holistic health and wellness by clarifying concepts and constructs for “positive” health as a means for improving public health quality. A wellness paradigm shifts health status towards optimum human potential and thriving instead of an overreliance on deficits or status quo functioning. From a public health perspective, wellness is not only limited to individual capacity but also applies to population health. Public health quality is explored as a reference point for incorporating the aforementioned concepts.
- Date of publication
- May 2011
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- Master of Public Health
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2011
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