Health Promoters and Community Workers

Health Promotion is defined as” the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health,” (Ottawa Charter for Health promotion)

Health Promoters work with the community by use of multiple strategies in the five action areas of health promotion.

They include the following:

• Building healthy public policy
• Creating supportive environments
• Strengthening community action
• Developing personal skills
• Re-orienting health services

Health promotion also focuses on the Determinants of Health which include:

• Income and social status
• Social support networks
• Education and literacy
• Employment and working conditions
• Healthy physical environments
• Social environments
• Healthy child development
• Health services access

Health Promoters coordinate and facilitate group and individual programs and tools that empower the individual towards achieving optimal health. They work in partnership with other agencies to the overall betterment of the community’s health. They focus on the prevention of disease but also concentrate on improving the lives of those with chronic diseases or disabilities

All of our programs are open to anyone in the community.They are provided through our centre’s multidisciplinary team along with partnerships with other agencies and are as follows:

• Healthy Lifestyle Exercise programs
• Healthy Eating Programs
• Chronic Disease programs, COPD, Chronic Pain
• Smoking Cessation
• Well Women Prevention Programs
• Health Education Seminars
• Healthy Choices Lifestyle Changes
• Community First Aid & CPR training programs
• Sun Safety/ Sexual Health
• Support Programs, Alzheimer’s, Mental Health, Grief, Diabetes‘ Support