Health Promotion Unit Services

Health promotion embraces not only action to strengthen individual skills and capabilities, but also actions to change social, environmental and economic conditions to alleviate their impact on individual and community health. According to the Ottawa charter, the key strategies for health promotion are to advocate for health, to enable people to take control of all determinants of health and to mediate between different interests in society for the pursuit of health.

Under the directives of the Health Promotion Bureau of the Ministry of Health, a Health Promotion Unit is established to develop health promotion within NIMH.

NIMH Health Promotion Unit shall focus on both on mental health as well as physical health issues.

Health Promotion Unit is under the supervision of the Medical Officer - Public Health and is manned by an In Charge Nursing Officer who has liaison Nurses in all wards and units.

A Health Promotion Committee chaired by the Director and consisting of Deputy Director, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, Consultant Physician, Medical Officer - Public Health, MOIC - Navodaya, Medical Officer - Planning, Medical Officer - Nutrition, Medical Officer - Training, Senior Dental Surgeon, Special Grade Nursing Officers, Nutritionist, Nursing Sister/ Ward Master - OPD, CPN Coordinator, Nursing IC - Geriatric Unit, Health Promotion Nursing Officer, Quality Management Nursing Officer, Infection Control Nursing Officer and Public Health Inspector will direct the institute‘s Health promotion activities under the following objectives.

General Objective To establish sustainable healthy environments in hospitals which address the physical and psychosocial needs of all stakeholders of a hospital setting Specific objectives 1. To empower the hospital community 2. To establish a setting which provides patient centred care in a healing environment 3. To establish a safe, supportive and healthy environment which promotes healthy lifestyle for all stakeholders in a hospital setting 4. To engage with all relevant health and non- health partners in establishing a sustainable health promotion setting

Important Health Days identified for specific health promotion: 1. World Cancer Day: 2. World Tuberculosis Day. 3. World Autism Day: 4. World Health Day. 5. Earth Day: 6. World Malaria Day. 04 February 24 March. 02 April 7 April. 22 April 25 April.

7. World Hypertension Day 8. World schizophrenia Day 9. World No Tobacco Day.

17 May 24 May 31 May. 10. World Blood Donor Day. 14 June. 11. International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 26 June 12. World Hepatitis Day. 28 July. 13. World Suicide Prevention Day : 10 September

14. World Patient Safety Day 15. World Alzeimer‘s Day 16. World Heart Day 17. World Elders and Children‘s Day: 18. World No-Alcohol Day 17 September 21 September 29 September 01 October 02 October

19. World Mental Health Day:

10 October 20. World Diabetes Day 14 November 21. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 22. World AIDS Day. 1 December. 23. International Day of Disabled Persons 03 December 24. Universal Health Coverage Day 12 December