Developing Personal Skills - Healers First Please

     "Health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health, and enhancing life skills. By so doing, it increases the options available to people to exercise more control over their own health and over their environments, and to make choices conducive to health.

     Enabling people to learn, throughout life, to prepare themselves for all of its stages and to cope with chronic illness and injuries is essential. This has to be facilitated in school, home, work and community settings. Action is required through educational, professional, commercial and voluntary bodies, and within the institutions themselves."

http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/previous/ottawa/en/index4.html

     We health-care professionals must lead by example in developing such personal skills. "Do as I say, not as I do" fails everyone: ourselves, our families, our loved ones, & our patients. 
     See: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2012/04/capacity.html

 

Logo created for the First International Conference on Health Promotion held in Ottawa, Canada, 1986.