Health Promotion aims to help people to live healthy lives. It involves increasing people’s knowledge and awareness, enabling them to take actions to improve their health, and ensuring that the circumstances allow them to make healthy choices.

Health Promotion includes:
Health Education
Developing personal skills
Strengthening community action
Reorienting health services
Building healthy public policy
Creating supportive environments

The Department of Health Promotion at WHO
provides a Health Promotion Glossary with core definitions.

The International Institute of Health Promotion gives an overview of what Health Promotion incorporates: Health Protection, Health Education and Prevention.