Health Promotion


Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.

Health promotion focuses on social and environmental interventions instead of individual behaviours.

This is achieved by:

Health promotion is a longer-term activity that focuses on preventing or stopping health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease before they have occurred, rather than treating lifestyle diseases after they have developed.

East Grampians Health Service key priority areas for 2022-2025 focus on:

East Grampians Health Service health promotion team works alongside the Grampians Pyrenees Prevention Network.