Stress Managment and Health Promotion

• Main Author: Asghar Dadkhah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Negah Institute for Scientific Communication 2004-09-01
• Series: Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
• Subjects: Stress; Stress management; Health; Health promotion; Rehabilitation specialist
• Online Access: http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-106&slc_lang=en&sid=1

Health promotion approach is utilized to address the prevention, management and early intervention for stress management and also to promote positive mental and psychological health. Stress affects everyone and must be managed effectively to reduce its chronic and deleterious effects this study consists of two sections: in first section the principals of health promotion in different human existence levels, prevention of disease related to stress, the effect of stress on human well-being, and stress management were discussed. In second section the role of rehabilitation specialists (Medical technologist, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, respiratory therapists, and social workers) in stress management were counted.