Essay On Principle Of Health Promotion

Principle 1: Health Promotion The World Health Organisation (n.d.) defines health promotion as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions”.

The Rotary Club has demonstrated this by building Ma Dube’s Clinic in the Vosloorus township (Rotary Club of Johannesburg, 1921), and by supporting a number of educational facilities where health programmes are used. This is done in an attempt to prevent any health risks that scholars can come into contact with (Rotary Club of Johannesburg, 1921).

Principle 2: Psychological Sense of Community

Psychological sense of community or, in other words, sense of belonging to the community has five elements:

1. Membership – the feeling of belonging

2. Influence – a sense of mattering to the community in terms of having a sense of making a difference

3. Integration – the sense that needs will be met through the resources that the

Support can be given in forms of social and financial support, having a sense of belonging as well as receiving advice from others.

The Rotary Club has been a source of support not only to its Rotarians but to the communities that they work with. Financial support has been given over the years for the development of schools and recreational facilities where, through these further support can be given to members of the community.

It is clear to see that the goals of the Rotary Club of Johannesburg and the goals of community psychologists are one in the same. Both parties set out to promote social change and diversity, create new ways to empower people in the communities they work with, promote individual and community well-being and prevent disorder (Cherry, n.d.)