What change characterized the Period of Health Promotion?

• A. Focus on quarantine
• B. Emphasis on health education and prevention
• C. Depopulation campaigns
• D. Hospital-centric care

Answer: (B)

The main idea is that public health shifted from just stopping disease through isolation and medical treatment to actively enabling people to stay healthy through education and prevention. This period centers on health education, preventive practices, and interventions that change behaviors, environments, and policies to reduce risk and improve well-being. Quarantine reflects earlier disease-control methods, and depopulation campaigns are not ethical or part of health promotion. Hospital-centered care focuses on treating illness after it happens, not on preventing it. So the defining change is an emphasis on health education and prevention.