Why Are We Doing This With the increased interest in population health across the country, many are asking how population health and health promotion are related. Health promotion is commonly defined as a process for enabling people to take control over and improve their health. Population health is an approach that addresses the entire range of factors that determine health and, by so doing, affects the health of the entire population.
Many people think that population health is no different from public health and community health.
Others believe that it is a new paradigm, while others believe that the concepts and principles of population health and health promotion are essentially the same. Rather than engage in a debate over the similarities and differences, this paper combines the ideas to provide an integrated Population Health Promotion Model. It presents the model and illustrates how this model can be used to operationalize a population health promotion approach. It 1974, the internationally acclaimed document A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians explored how factors other than health care contribute to the health of a population. This was a serious attempt to re-evaluate how health is created.