[Health promotion development as the basis for an effective health policy]

Health promotion and development are an essential part of modern and effective health care. It is based on the awareness of social health priority, it tries to develop and apply adequate methods, it is the motive for the promotion of nation-wide activities which foster health. It promotes individual efforts to improve health and contributes to the concretization and implementation of a health policy, the aim of which is to resolve basic health problems of society as a whole.