**2. Methodology and results**

During the review of the topic, it became clear that the increase in health consciousness will be examined according to the model presented above.

Thus, I did a qualitative research, document, and content analysis, examining the occurrence of the term "improving health consciousness" in Hungarian professional materials. It can be stated that increasing health consciousness means complex health improvement, using modern technologies.

#### **2.1 Health improvement in the modern age**

So the modern health-conscious person sees and lives in this complex system, so he expects positive responsibility for himself, his environment, and others. Thus, the responsibility of the macro-environment and stakeholders is to consciously create a supportive environment for the individual. The health-promoting environment represents a novel approach to health promotion.

Health promotion refers to all nontherapeutic interventions that promote the maintenance, development, and improvement of health and the resolution of health problems of a behavioral and/or environmental nature. Therefore, health promotion integrates the existing substrategies of health information, health education and teaching, self-help, and prevention into a single concept. It also emphasizes the need

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for interdisciplinarity and crossing sectoral boundaries, the consideration of living and working conditions, and opportunities for public participation [3].

In terms of health, development means "improving" health, that is, providing information, support, and the prioritizing health issues at both the individual and society levels [3, 4]. The basic goal of health promotion is to enable people to gain more control over the factors that affect their lives and health.

Health is a positive concept that encompasses both individual and social resources beyond "physical fitness" [3]. The central element of the definition is the issue of control, which expresses the active nature of health promotion. The so-called "prevention" of diseases of civilization is not possible without the proper motivation and active participation of the individual and community.

The so-called "epidemiological" epochal change – the shift in the spectrum of leading causes of death from infectious diseases to chronic, noninfectious diseases – also required a paradigm shift in medicine and medical practice.

The World Health Organization's (WHO) definition of health promotion World Health Organization (WHO) Definition Of Health - Public Health aptly states, "Health promotion is the process of enabling people to exercise increasing influence (control) over the factors that determine their health and to improve their own health status."

The outlined perspective follows from the concept of health and also includes the extent to which an individual or group is able to realize their desires and satisfy their needs; on the other hand, they can change their environment and cope with the task of environmental protection. Health is therefore seen as a resource in daily life, not as a goal in life. This positive sounding formulation emphasizes social and personal resources as well as physical capacity/endurance, that is, fitness of the individual [3, 5].

The fundamental aspect and goal of health promotion is to empower and enable people to pay more attention to the factors that affect their lives and health, in Hungarian: "to take more care of their health" [3, 5].

The new approach to health promotion must bring a renewal, where health promotion increasingly becomes a kind of lifestyle program that extends to the whole; it includes old and young, men and women, healthy and sick. The most important element of health promotion with a new approach is personal development, which enables you to find joy in life and improve the quality of life. In this change of attitude, the results of multidisciplinary health-related research and their effective application must play a key role [3].

#### **2.2 Examples in health improvement in the modern age**

In Hungary, best practices consist of connecting professional areas, where health improvement is managed in holistic, complex way. This means that individual health plans, based on lifestyle medicine, are made by examining the areas of nutrition, exercise, and mental hygiene. The environmental effects are examined, and the environmental actors are also considered actors who can be addressed. At the same time, in implementation, health education typically focuses on the individual responsibility. There are already examples where the environmental actors cooperate in order to improve health.

An example is the oncology prehabilitation program in the Hungarian health care system, which works from the diagnosis of cancer to the active oncological treatment. This program professionally prepares the patient and his environment for the treatments, and the modifiable risk factors within the scope of supply [6]. In this protocol as well, the professionally holistic approach is applied (simultaneous analysis and

modification of nutrition, physical therapy, mental hygiene areas), and actors who provide active intervention in some area, such as pastors, civil society, social workers, are already appearing [7].

Another example is a workplace health improvement, which shows that the holistic approach is used by the Hungarian Police. They connect the field of medicine, psychology, and law enforcement for the most effective health improvement. The purpose of the Life-Strength-Health Program is to maintain health support programs operating at the police, to standardize its implementation principles at the national level, and to introduce new programs [8].

The eight pillars of workplace recreation and health improvement at the Hungarian Police:


As we can see there is no such complex increasing health consciousness example in Hungary that can be used for social innovation framework. This study shows a program which is built on the model of holistic health consciousness and responsibility.
