CRITICAL REFLECTION ON THEORY 3
The Red Lotus Health Promotion theory bridged a gap in the set of fitness campaign
models accessible to physicians.
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It backed health experts in their struggles to advance the
superiority of current well-being elevation practice. RLHPM put more prominence on aspects
that created and supported decent health, well-being,
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and cheerfulness and significance in
life through the development of needs evaluation.
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It is different from conventional health
promotion, which put more emphasis on ailment prevention and behavioural risk causes for
illness.
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It integrated a structure of values and ethics, which can be useful to the segments of
fitness upgrade as well as defining the health pattern, needs evaluation,
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scheduling,
enactment, and assessment. The Red Lotus Plant was selected as a mark of health preferment
because its merits and structure were distinctive of modern well-being promotion. The plant’s
structure characterized the crucial components of the Red Lotus Health Promotional Model.
It was a strength for this theory to recognise that health comprised of unified dimensions of
spiritual, physical,
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and social, mental health and that wellbeing and ill-health are not jointly
exclusive and do co-exist.
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Added benefit of this theory is that it gave a prospect to health
practitioners to tactical plan, support and mediate the development of strategy collection
provided that Ottawa charter was not involved in the policy combination.4 Some of its other
advantages include its ability to cover all aspects of health promotion practices such as health
factors
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scheduling, enactment, evaluation and relevance of values and principles. Since this
model solely relied on evidence, Ottawa Health Charter promotion was entirely applied to a
participant and stakeholders and helped in building up a development stage of Health
campaign programs. The RLHP Model characterised communities who intermingled with
environmental conditions to define health outcomes; the Red Lotus Flower Petal layer
symbolised biological eminences
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such as age, sex, and inheritances, state of health and well-
being, socioeconomic position, their boldness, values, beliefs, and behaviours.
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