Health Promotion Approach: Natural Health Products and Complementary
and Alternative Health Care
Note on concept of Health Promotion
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control
over and to improve their health. Health promotion practice understands
health in its broadest sense, and is the product of people's behaviour,
genetic make-up, social connections and environments. "People" may refer
to communities and populations, not just individuals. It is important
to understand that determinants of health such as education, environment,
culture and economic factors have a significant impact on this enabling
process.
Description: NHPD File on Health Promotion
This file provides the opportunity for policy attention to natural health
products (NHPs) and complementary and alternative health care (CAHC) in
the context of a health promotion approach. It integrates earlier Health
Canada attention to complementary and alternative health care and its
current and potential impact on our health system with information, informed
choice and utilization issues for natural health products. This is in
the context of development and implementation at Health Canada of a regulatory
framework for natural health products.
The current challenge is to consider product, practice and practitioner
issues, using a health promotion approach, to situate this file for the
future. That is, to further develop the relevance of health promotion
concepts in a landscape of CAHC and NHPs, then to develop strategic plans
to guide program development and wise use of resources.
In this Section:
Reference Material
Perspectives
on Natural Health Products
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