Health promoting hospital
Overview
Health promoting hospital takes action to promote the health of their patients, their staff, and the population in the community they are located in. Health promoting hospitals are actively attempting to become “healthy organizations”. Health Promoting Hospitals are being implemented since 1988. An international network has developed to promote the wider adoption of this concept in hospitals and other health care settings. A health promoting hospital does not only provide high quality comprehensive medical and nursing services, but also develops a corporate identity that embraces the aims of health promotion, develops a health promoting organizational structure and culture, including active, participatory roles for patients and all members of staff, develops itself into a health promoting physical environment and actively cooperates with its community.
Guiding Principles for HPH in South-East Asia Region (2009)
- Respect for human dignity and for individual and cultural difference
- Care to all patients from a holistic perspective
- Value the staff and others such as trainees and students who work within it, paying regard to their physical and mental health and well being
- Become a dynamic and innovative organization
- Custodian of precious resources which must be used to advance the health and well-being of the community it serves