- Health promotion - World Health Organization (WHO)
“Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health ” Health Promotion Glossary, 1998 A brief history of Health Promotion The first International Conference on Health Promotion was held in Ottawa in 1986, and was primarily a response to growing expectations for a new public health movement around the world It launched a series of
- Health Promotion
Health is created by caring for oneself and others, by being able to take decisions and have control over one's life circumstances, and by ensuring that the society one lives in creates conditions that allow the attainment of health by all its members Caring, holism and ecology are essential issues in developing strategies for health promotion
- Health promotion
Health promotion enables people to increase control over their own health It covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions that are designed to benefit and protect individual people’s health and quality of life by addressing and preventing the root causes of ill health, not just focusing on treatment and cure
- Health Promotion
We work to enhance people’s wellbeing and reduce their health risks associated with tobacco use, alcohol consumption and physical inactivity, thereby contributing to better population health We develop and implement cross-cutting normative, fiscal and legal measures and capacity development tools We advance global health in health literacy, community engagement strategies and good
- Health Promotion - PAHO WHO | Pan American Health Organization
Health Promotion encourages changes in the environment to generate health and well-being It operates in the places or contexts in which people participate in daily activities; where social, economic, environmental, organizational, and personal factors interact Schools, universities, houses, workplaces, markets, and other common spaces are key settings to gain health throughout the life course
- Health Promotion
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment
- Health Promotion - World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Promotion We work to enhance people’s wellbeing and reduce their health risks associated with tobacco use, alcohol consumption and physical inactivity, thereby contributing to better population health We develop and implement cross-cutting normative, fiscal and legal measures and capacity development tools
- Health Promotion
The unit of enhanced well-being (WEL) deals with the areas of good governance for health and wellbeing including healthy cities and health promoting schools, health literacy and community engagement based on the Ottawa charter, the subsequent Declarations of the Global Health Promotion Conferences including the Shanghai Declaration on promoting health in the SDGs
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