Introduction

Health promotion refers to any activities that result in better health in a community or at an individual level. It includes the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. It focuses on health and healthy lifestyle (wellbeing of the population) functioning in collaboration with individuals, community, governmental and non-government organisations.

In this study session, you will learn the different health promotion, education and screening activities as well as disease prevention methods.Also you will undergo different methods of communicating health education messages and the mechanism to engage individuals, groups, opinion leaders and community members in the promotion and utilisation of ANC services.