WHO defined health promotion as "the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health".

Ten years after the WHO defined health promotion as &dquo;the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health,&dquo; the concept of community empowerment is finally taking hold. Instead of fostering dependence in our patients, families, and communities, the new paradigm requires the health care community to finally give up control over its clients. The success achieved by the Nepal Health Development Project (HDP) in &dquo;Participatory Health Development in Rural Nepal: Clarifying the Process of Community Empowennenf &dquo; is an exciting illustration of the powerful potential within