some level of responsibility for their health?
The answer to your question is Yes. However, the New Public Health approach uses a combined approach focusing on both individual and social responsibility for health. The New Public Health (NPH) approach links ‘old’ public health concerns about hygiene, sanitation, clean air and water, and combines them with a concern for the role played by lifestyle factors/individual behaviour, community and social determinants. NPH focuses attention on the prevention of illness through: ·health education and empowerment of individuals ·community participation, and ·wider social policies aimed at improving living and working conditions. Rather than just concentrate on the health education of individuals and getting individuals to take responsibility for their health, it also attempts to address community health needs (through a settings approach – introducing specific changes to settings such as the school, the sports club, the workplace, the local area…), as well as addressing the social determina
