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Health promotion encourages persons to monitor and improve their own health.Children and older persons are more susceptible to various forms of environmental pollution than individuals in the intermediate ages and are more likely to be affected by even the lowest pollution levels.Medical conditions due to environmental pollution reduce productivity and affect quality of life of persons as they age.The basic strategies for health promotion were laid down in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986).6 Goals of increasing the healthy lifespan, improving the quality of life for all, reducing mortality and morbidity rates and increasing life expectancy were set at the International Conference on Population and Development (1994).7 These goals can be more effectively achieved through implementation of actions recommended by the World Health Organization to improve both public health and access to adequate health care.A life course perspective involves recognizing that health promotion and disease prevention activities need to focus on maintaining independence, prevention and delay of disease and disability and providing treatment, as well as on improving the functioning and quality of life of older persons who already have disabilities.63.64.65.

Health promotion encourages persons to monitor and improve their own
health. The basic strategies for health promotion were laid down in the Ottawa
Charter for Health Promotion (1986).6 Goals of increasing the healthy lifespan,
improving the quality of life for all, reducing mortality and morbidity rates and
increasing life expectancy were set at the International Conference on Population
and Development (1994).7 These goals can be more effectively achieved through
implementation of actions recommended by the World Health Organization to
improve both public health and access to adequate health care.
63. Health promotion activities and equal access of older persons to health care
and services that include disease prevention throughout life is the cornerstone of
healthy ageing. A life course perspective involves recognizing that health promotion
and disease prevention activities need to focus on maintaining independence,
prevention and delay of disease and disability and providing treatment, as well as on
improving the functioning and quality of life of older persons who already have
disabilities.
64. Maintaining and enhancing health status requires more than specific actions to
affect individual health. Health is strongly influenced by environmental, economic
and social determinants, including the physical environment, geography, education,
occupation, income, social status, social support, culture and gender. Improvements
in the economic and social situation of older persons will result in improvements in
their health as well. Despite improvements in legislation and service delivery, equal
opportunities for women through the life course are still not realized in many areas.
For women, a life course approach to well-being in old age is particularly important,
as they face obstacles throughout life with a cumulative effect on their social,
economic, physical and psychological well-being in their later years.
65. Children and older persons are more susceptible to various forms of
environmental pollution than individuals in the intermediate ages and are more
likely to be affected by even the lowest pollution levels. Medical conditions due to
environmental pollution reduce productivity and affect quality of life of persons as
they age. Malnutrition and poor nutrition also place older persons at
disproportionate risk and can adversely affect their health and vitality. The leading
causes of disease, disability and mortality in older persons can be alleviated through
health promotion and disease prevention measures that focus, inter alia, on nutrition,
physical activity and cessation of smoking.