Health Promotion

Appreciate the importance of mental health promotion, stigma reduction and community psychiatry.

What our notes say

• Appreciate the importance of mental health promotion, stigma reduction and community psychiatry. (Psychiatry and Mental Health Curriculum: Year 4 (MKU))
• Use preventive and rehabilitative measures and carry out health promotion in mental health. (Psychiatry and Mental Health Curriculum: Year 4 (MKU))
• Health promotion and education to improve knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of men and women about pregnancy. (Pre-conception care)
• What it achieves: through timely, evidence-based health promotion, disease prevention, screening and treatment, ANC reduces complications of pregnancy and childbirth, reduces stillbirths and perinatal deaths, and delivers integrated care throughout pregnancy. (Antenatal care)
• Prevention and Health Promotion: Identifies risk factors, enabling targeted interventions (e.g., vaccination, lifestyle changes). (Epidemiology And Biostatistics)
• Health Promotion and Awareness: Screening programs raise awareness of preventable diseases, encouraging healthy behaviors and motivating individuals to seek preventive healthcare. (Epidemiology And Biostatistics)

Study material on Health Promotion

• Psychiatry and Mental Health Curriculum: Year 4 (MKU)
• Epidemiology And Biostatistics

Related topics

• Bnd 3104 Nutrition
• Research Methodology
• Communication Skills
• History Taking
• Endocrine Pathology
• Clinical Enzymology
• Sampling
• Preterm Labour
• Pathology Practical
• Screening