Question

compare and contrast health promotion and health education. Discuss how healthy people 2020 and affordable act has influenced health promotion in public health.

Answer 1

	Health education	Health promotion
1	Health education is given to people in order to promote health of the people and reduce risk factors	Health promotion aims to change the behavior of the people there by promoting the health of the individual and reduce risk factors
2	It is voluntary change of behavior of people by adapting health education	It is voluntary change of behavior of people by the adapting activities
3	It helps the people to choose and make the choices regarding health	It helps the people to choose choice of action to change his behavior regarding the health
4	It uses media   for conveying health information	It uses mass media and other methods to convey health information

	Health education	Health promotion
1	Health education is being used widely by the students, educational organization	Health promotion is being widely used by the professionals
2	Health education focuses on awareness and wellness	Health promotion focuses on the awareness regarding prevention of disease and promotion of health
3	It informs and teaching the people to achieve better health	It involves social, economic and political change to make environment safe
4	Principles of health education are interest, participation, understanding, known to unknown factors, motivation, reinforcement	Principles of health promotion are   positive health concept, action competence, a setting perspective, equity in health, participation and involvement
5	Health education is a primary and dormitory of health promotion	It has various activities include behavior change, health protection in the case of environment, health related public policy
6	It helps to change behavior at individual and community level	It helps to change at various levels such as institutional level, community level, public policy, individual level, interpersonal level
7	Health education can be given through individual and family. mass media is ineffective to change behavior of an individual	Health education can be given through the social marketing, community mobilization, policy communication, mass media
8	Health education uses methods such as lectures, flash cards, panel discussion, flannel graph, television, radio, puppets , exhibition	Health promotion uses various methods to inform health promotion such as advocacy, health education, communication for behavior change, social marketing, social mobilsation, legislation, economic and environmental policies
9	Health education topic includes healthy life style, physical exercise, tobacco prevention, safety, disposal methods, mental health	Health promotion contents includes income, housing, food security, employment, quality working conditions

Affordable care act: this affordable act signed in 2010 in order to promote access of care and protect consumer. Goal of affordable care act is use of the health system by means of affordable health insurance and thereby primary prevention and secondary prevention measures can be used. Goal of Healthy people is to improve healthy behaviors, healthy communities, families, workers, and occupational sites.

Aims of affordable care cat includes community prevention, clinical prevention, public health health infrastructure and research of workforce surveillance

Affordable care act needs to implement quality health strategy. This quality strategy has three aims such as better health care, affordable care and healthy people and healthy communities in order to improve health of people by implementing measures to combat social, behavior, environmental determinant of health. The national quality has six strategies; two of which has mainly focused on public health that is promoting the prevention and treatment methods in the cases of leading cases of mortality. Another strategy is used to work with communities to use of best measures to lead a healthy life.

Factors that contributes to ill health

Most people are affected with obesity, following sedentary lifestyle, physical inactivity, substance use and mental health disorders, environment issues such as pollution

• Affordable care act provides behavior intervention free of cost such as alcohol screening and counseling, depression screening, tobacco screening and interventions
• It also provides free food and drug administration such as contraceptive methods
• it also provides preventive measures such as cancer screening, blood pressure screening, cholesterol screening and immunization for adults and children
• ffordable care act influnces public helath by means prevention and public health fund which helps improves public health infrastructure and surveilence and work force

Health policy gives importance to social determinants of health and in equal access of health care. Based on healthy people 2020, national health promotion and prevention council gives a way of implementing health in all policies through government agencies. By the implementation of the affordable care act, it affect social and physical environment of health. It increases chance of provision of care by creating between medical care professions and population health institutions. Implementation of health policy 2020 helps to serve as prevention measures and implementation of policies at national, state, local level and interventions. It uses evidenced based functions and continue to maintain to improve the health of people