prevention and health promotion” .. Tomorrow
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, tomorrow, the fourteenth of Shawwal, corresponding to the fifteenth of May 2022, the interactive remote meeting “Disease prevention and health promotion” will start tomorrow.
The interactive meeting will discuss 5 main axes: standards for measuring the performance of health systems, keeping pace with 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 support the psychological aspect in case of epidemics.
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.
It is noteworthy that the main speakers at the meeting are
Professor Tawfiq bin Ahmed Khoja, Secretary General of the Arab Hospitals Union, Vice President of the Arab Union for Combating Counterfeiting and Counterfeiting
Vice President of the Arab Academy for Governance,
Professor Maha Zine El Abidine Rabat
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Professor of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Kasr Al-Ainy, former Egyptian Minister of Health and Population, Prof.
Salman Rawaf, Professor of Public Health, Imperial College London, President of the Arab Society for Public Health, Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani, Health Promotion Adviser - Ministry of Health, Professor Suleiman Abdullah Al-Shamri, Professor and Consultant in Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine and University Hospitals, Riyadh, Vice President of the Scientific Council of Family Medicine, Saudi Commission for Specialties Previously, Dr. Abeer Al-Bahouh, Ph.D. Family Medicine - Director of the Health Promotion Department of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health, Dr. Alaa Tariq Ahmed Nasser, Head of the Epidemiological Investigation Department and (specialist in Public Health Studies), Dr. Sana Al-Qaisi, Family Medicine Consultant, Specialist, Academic Expert and Supervisor in the Medical Education Department at Dubai Health Authority.
