Why Promote Health?
My interest in health promotion was aroused at the age of seventeen, when
my mother died from a stroke. It occurred to me that her ill health was largely
the result of poor lifestyle choices and inappropriate medication. What a waste
of life!
I began to realise that our reliance on modern medicine was at best
naïve, and health education and preventative health practices were the way of
the future.
Many years later, I stumbled across a