Promotive Functions: According to WHO, Health promotion is the process of enabling people in order to increase in awareness about diseases and taking preventive measures to improve health. It is not directed against any particular disease or focusing on treatment/cure, but is intended to strengthen the patient through a variety of approaches such as health education, environmental modification, nutritional support, lifestyle and behavioural changes. The GDA has to educate the patient on various aspects of health and nutrition. The GDA provides information about health, treatment or therapy and lifestyle changes.
Preventive Functions: It includes supervision pregnancies and childbirth, supervision of growth and development of children, control of communicable diseases, and provision of health education services, occupational health services and preventive health checkup. The GDA helps in these aspects by creating awareness and sensitization about good health practices.
