Health promotion offers pathways that address these factors in a coordinated way and translate global commitments into local action we deliver impact in countries health promotion also focuses on the settings where people and communities live work play and make decisions that affect their health and well being. Introduction to global health promotion addresses a breadth and depth of public health topics that students and emerging professionals in the field must understand as the worlds burden of disease changes with non communicable diseases on the rise in low and middle income countries as their middle class populations grow now more than ever we . Introduction to health promotion gives students a working knowledge of health promotion concepts and methods and their application to health and health behaviors with a special emphasis on the philosophical and theoretical foundations of health promotion the textbook also identifies and discusses the innovative health campaigns strategies and policies being implemented and enacted to improve health behaviors and practices that ultimately improve quality of life. History the first and best known definition of health promotion declared by the american journal of health promotion since 1986 is the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health since then and even before there have been plenty of definitions for health promotion 1974 lalonde report form canada 1979 healthy people report of surgeon general of united states 1984 who 1986 canadian minister of national health and welfare 5