Health Promotion For Young Children And Their Families

Intro- â€Å"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.† WHO- World Health Organisation. According to the World Health Organisation, â€Å"health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.† There are many different health promotion campaigns such as Change 4 Life, which is a campaign to increase children’s activity levels and get them to eat healthier; it does this through various different ways such as online recipes, sending out leaflets and promotional letters. It is mainly aimed at young children and†¦show more content†¦Some people who could be seen to be not as physically healthy may be people with Down’s syndrome or people who suffer from Anorexia. Anorexia, although it is a disease of the mind, it then has a physical effect on the body as the sufferer tends to restrict the amount of food they eat as they try to reduce their body weight and keep it as low as possible, they have a tendency to make themselves vomit and they exercise excessively. Starving the body of food and loosing too much weight stops your organs from functioning and also has an effect of the physical appearance of the individual, for example they may start to lose hair, their skin may become dry and yellowish, their fingernails and toenails start to become brittle and about a third of people with serious weight loss tend to acquire fine, soft hairs on their face and body. Intellectual Being intellectually healthy involves the ability to think coherently and clearly, to be able to organise thoughts logically, and also involves the ability to process information efficiently. The way a person thinks and handles a situation also indicates their mental health. A mentally healthy person is able to concentrate and keep focused on a task for a prolonged period of time; they are able to listen and think more effectively and tend to be more attentive. Intellectually healthy people also