1、世界卫生组织（World Health Organization）：

       健康促进是促使人们提高对自身健康控制和改善能力的过程。（Health promotion has also been referred to as a process of enabling people to increase control over, and improve, their health. ）

    2、美国健康与人类服务部（US Department of health and human services）：

       健康促进对个人、家庭和社区提供信息和教育，这种信息和教育鼓励家庭成员共同努力、社区做出承诺、宗教机构参与，为了促进人们的健康做出积极的贡献。（Health Promotion is the provision of information and/or education to individuals, families, and communities that-encourage family unity, community commitment, and traditional spirituality, that make positive contributions to their health status.）

    3、加拿大卫生部（Health Canada）:

      健康促进是一种策略，这种策略为个人、集体和社区提供做出健康决定的工具。与传统的疾病和伤害治疗不同，健康促进的重点主要放在影响健康的社会、物质、经济和政治的因素上，也包括对减肥、健康的生活方式和合理营养的宣传倡导。（ Health Promotion is a strategy for improving the health of the population by providing individuals, groups and communities with the tools to make informed decisions about their well-being.）。Moving beyond the traditional treatment of illness and injury, health promotion efforts are centered primarily on the social, physical, economical and political factors that affect health, and include such activities as the promotion of physical fitness, healthy living and good nutrition. ）

     4、澳大利亚卫生部（Ministry of Health, AU）:

       健康促进是一切促进健康和预防疾病的活动。这些活动包括降低疾病的危险因素、早发现、预防不可逆的并发症发生以及预防疾病复发。健康促进是健康教育、疾病预防和健康保护的综合运用。健康促进是旨在改变健康的影响因素的行动，而不是针对某种疾病所采取的具体措施。（Activities to improve health and prevent disease. Health promotion comprises efforts to prevent ill-health through risk reduction or early detection, to prevent avoidable complications of an irreversible, manifest disease and to prevent re-occurrence of ill-health. Health promotion enhances positive health through the overlapping spheres of health education, disease prevention and health protection. It is generally directed towards action on the determinants of health rather than focusing on specific disease entities.）

     5、英国卫生部（National Health Service，UK）:

       健康促进是鼓励人们采纳有可能减少患病危险因素的行为的活动。（These are activities involved in encouraging people to adopt actions that are likelihood to reduce the risk of developing disease.）

     6、美国健康促进杂志（Am J of Health Promotion）

    健康促进是一门科学和艺术，它帮助人们改变生活方式从而达到理想的健康状态。理想的健康状态是指生理、情绪、社会、精神以及智力的平衡状态。生活方式改变要通过提高健康意识、改变行为以及创造对健康行为有支持作用的环境条件而实现，其中环境条件的改善对于行为改变的持续性具有最大的影响。（Health promotion is the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health.  Optimal health is defined as a balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health.  Lifestyle change can be facilitated through a combination of efforts to enhance awareness, change behavior and create environments that support good health practices.  Of the three, supportive environments will probably have the greatest impact in producing lasting change.）

      7、其他:

       对那些能够激发人们采纳健康行为的理念和概念的宣传倡导。（Health promotion is the promotion of healthy ideas and concepts to motivate individuals to adopt health behaviors.）