{"id":82,"date":"2019-06-17T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T08:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/en\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:01:28","slug":"health-promotion-and-prevention-in-the-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/en\/teaching-research-laboratories\/health-promotion-and-prevention-in-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Health Promotion and Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Approaches<\/h2>\n

Salutogenesis aims to identify people\u2019s resources, both internal and external (proximal and distal), that are conducive to the production, maintenance and enhancement of health and that thus contribute to improve wellness and quality of life (Lindtstr\u00f6m & Eriksson, 2010). In this regard, the CHPP LER operates according to the principles of health promotion advocated by the WHO and defined in the Ottawa Charter (1986).<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, working to promote the health of both individuals and the population also means intervening preventatively in order to identify and target individual and environmental risk factors.<\/p>\n

In this case, the CHPP LER opts for a pathogenic approach in its teaching, research and service provision activities. The focus here, instead, is on what produces diseases, accidents or death, and interventions are predicated on the principles of primary prevention.<\/p>\n

Health promotion and primary prevention are complementary and often overlap.<\/p>\n

Efforts to improve the health, wellness and quality of life of the population are best served by the synthesis and synergy of these approaches. The care models that we apply are marked by this synthesis and synergy.<\/p>\n

Practice settings concerned<\/h2>\n

The practice settings concerned by the CHPP LER\u2019s teaching, research and service provision activities are essentially the following:<\/p>\n