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Health promotion programs represent an evolution that has passed through revolutionary steps in the quest to promote health. Today, health promotion programs use both health education and environmental actions to promote good health and quality of life for all. The Healthy People initiative is a public-private partnership that allows local health promotion programs to link their health promotion programming with national data and information.

Health promotion programs are the product of deliberate effort and work by many people and organizations to address a health concern in a community, school, college and universities, healthcare organization, or workplace. And even though individuals across these sites may share broad categories of health concerns focused on diseases and human behavior, each setting is unique. Effective health promotion programs reflect the individual needs of a priority population as well as their political, social, ethnic, economic, religious, and cultural backgrounds.

Health promotion programs involve stakeholders, advisory boards, champions, and advocates in program planning, implementation, and evaluation in order to ensure effective programming.

A new health promotion era emerged from the pandemic. COVID-19 fundamentally changed many aspects of peoples’ lives. The work of promoting health has gained prominence and importance but at the same time is intertwined with larger and more volatile societal forces. It is our professional responsibility to figure out how to forge ahead to do the work of health promotion for our community and society.