Health Promotion Essay Example

“Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health.(World Health Organization (2019, November 15). According to my research, on the primary health promotion topics for the population ages 0-18 I was able to discover that some of the many health promotions are the use of tobacco and nicotine products, the rising numbers of obesity in the younger population, along with sleep. 

According to Public Health Ontario and NCBI, one of the many things that are causing premature death and disease in multiple adolescent individuals is the use of tobacco products along with the highly popular nicotine product, the e-cigarette. Considering 1 in 4 teens in high school vape this “suggests that vaping is leading youth into nicotine use and nicotine addiction, not away from it.”(Dr. Richard Miech,2019). E-cigarettes may not have tobacco but the nicotine in them is the same as in tobacco products so it is also considered a gateway to tobacco products for teens. However, this does not only affect them as the older population is a role model for the younger generation, so as the younger population sees the older population using these products it is a higher risk that they will too in the future. Considering the advantages to promote the effects of this chemical to this population we may be able to shut it down or decrease the numbers in this age group.