Author Archives: Alem Yimer

PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH PROMOTION: Health promotion combines diverse, but complementary methods or approaches including communication, education, legislation, fiscal measures, organizational change, community change, community development and spontaneous local activities against health hazards. Five approaches to health promotion, each necessitating the use of different kinds of activities. These approaches are medical; behavioral change; educational; client-centered, and societal change.

What is health promotion?  Health promotion enables people to increase control over their own health. It covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions that are designed to benefit and protect individual people’s health and quality of life by addressing and preventing the root causes of ill health, not just focusing on treatment andContinue reading “Health promotion”

Health is a human right . Everyone should have the right to breath clean air, to drink clean water, and eat healthy food. Today, three types of definition of health seem to be possible and are used. The first is that health is the absence of any disease or impairment. The second is that health is a state that allows the individual toContinue reading “Health”

First , what does optimism mean? Optimism as quoted by the English dictionary  reads, ‘hopefulness and confidence about the future of success of something’ This is a nice definition of optimism, someone who is confident and hopeful of their future.  Pessimism or pessimistic on the other hand is the evil twin of optimism, as inContinue reading “Optimistic vs Pessimistic”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”