M.D., Masters in Health Promotion,
Development of health promotion is rapid and tangible in the more economically developed countries (U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia etc), whereas the progress of health promotion towards establishing it in less economically developed countries has been slow. In the future, health promotion will be long term and even though government and international organizations are spending millions of dollars, health promotion continues to be surrounded by many challenges. Health promotion hospital (HPH) needs to link organizational health promoting activities with continuous quality improvement programs. So far we have little knowledge that a HPH is better than a non-HPH. Also, only limited resources have been used to strengthen health promotion, so there is no reason to believe that it has a detrimental effect on hospital activities by reallocating resources from the core functions of the hospital. Future work is required to be carried out in developing indicators and a self-assessment tool for standards in health promotion in order to strengthen the systematic planning, implementation and evaluation of health promotion in hospitals.
Health promotion, health promotion hospitals
