Health Promotion in A Large City

A large amount of knowledge in favour of health promotion is available. Improvement of both the quality of life and life expectancy are probably dependent on health promotion programmes. Individual and community participation has been recognized as being a prerequisite for the credibility, feasibility and success of these programmes. A life-style approach has emerged as a key component of health promotion programmes, and in the last few years extensive debate has provided diffuse support for this concept.