Underlie Health Promotion Model

The Australian health care system consists of many providers that deliver a plethora of care services, but the two models predominate for obesity is the promotion of health and disease prevention. Health promotion and disease prevention both place a specific emphasis on obesity by aiming to improve an individual’s health and well-being. In further, health promotion intends to embrace actions that “enable people to increase control over and to improve their health” (The Department of Health, 2017). On the other hand, disease prevention consists of strategies and approaches that seeks to reduce the likelihood of a disease occurring, or at least tries to slow down its progress (WHO, 2015).
There are several principles that underlie health promotion