meeting “disease prevention and health promotion”
Under the auspices of the Secretary-General of the Federation of Arab Hospitals, Professor and Consultant of Family and Community Medicine, Professor Tawfiq Ahmed Khoja, the interactive remote meeting “Prevention of Diseases and Health Promotion” will be launched on the fourteenth of next Shawwal, corresponding to the fifteenth of May 2022.
The interactive meeting discusses 5 main themes
• Standards for measuring health systems performance
• Keeping abreast of global developments in the field of public health.
• Measures to be adopted to strengthen the immune system.
• The importance of public health and the use of a distinctive approach to promote community health.
• The rights of health practitioners and leave the psychological aspect in case of epidemics 0
The Saudi Commission for Health Specialties has approved 15 hours of continuing medical education for the activities of the health meeting.
In a related context, Professor Tawfiq Ahmed Khoja explained in a press statement that what is meant by health promotion is the process of enabling people to control their health, which will result in improving their quality of life, as disease prevention activity focuses on preventive strategies to reduce the risks of chronic diseases and other disease states. .
He explained that health promotion is related to creating healthy conditions and environments for members of societies where they live, work, age and play. Well-being is a positive state experienced by individuals and societies and a resource for daily life, determined by social, economic and environmental conditions.
Khoja concluded by saying, that health promotion and disease prevention is an important part of the health sector’s commitment to cross the lives of patients to safety, and health promotion encourages a comprehensive health approach that goes beyond clinical care, and enables all groups and segments of societies and children to control their situation health and safety.
