The branch of health work concerned with enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. Its founding statement is the Ottawa Charter, presented at the first International Conference on Health Promotion in 1986, which treats health as a resource for everyday life rather than the objective of living and reaches beyond healthy lifestyles to wellbeing. Health promotion action aims at making political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, behavioural and biological conditions favourable to health through advocacy, and at equity in health, reducing differences in health status and securing equal opportunities and resources for all people to achieve their fullest health potential. The Charter holds that this cannot be delivered by the health sector alone: it demands coordinated action by governments, health and other social and economic sectors, nongovernmental and voluntary organizations, local authorities, industry and the media.
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Central QuestionHow can people and communities be enabled to increase control over the conditions that determine their health, rather than only being treated when those conditions fail? 1 Key DebateHealth promotion's own founding theorist framed the field as a challenge to biomedicine's pathogenic, dichotomous view of health, proposing instead a salutogenic continuum running from illness toward wellness; how far the field has actually shifted from a disease focused paradigm toward that continuum model remains debated. 2 Key DebateHow much of health promotion is individual behaviour change and how much is action on political, economic and environmental conditions. The Ottawa Charter takes a position, that the field goes beyond healthy lifestyles to wellbeing and is not just the responsibility of the health sector, and practice has kept re-opening the balance ever since. 1 Connections
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Source Programa Academia da Saude official page, Ministerio da Saude (Brazil)Ministério da Saúde (Brazil)
Source ChileAtiende: Elige Vivir Sano
Equity in health is named by the Ottawa Charter as a focus of health promotion action.
Source World Health Organization Official Site
The Charter is the founding statement of the health promotion field and carries its standing definition.
Source World Health Organization Official Site
Source Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey: Achievements in the Last 20 Years (Epidemiology and Health)
The World Health Organization convened the first International Conference on Health Promotion at Ottawa in 1986 and carries the Charter and the conference series.
Source World Health Organization Official Site
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Source World Health Organization Official Site
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1. World Health Organization Official Site
World Health OrganizationOttawa Charter, first global conference on health promotion
Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy life-styles to well-being.
- Includes: Smoking Cessation Support, Fact sheet: Tobacco, demand reduction framing
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Salutogenesis
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Antonovsky identifies the dominant paradigm of Western medicine as pathogenic, which in turn leads to an understanding of health as dichotomous - one is either healthy or sick.
Programa Academia da Saude official page, Ministerio da Saude (Brazil)
Ministério da Saúde (Brazil), Ministério da Saúde, BrazilAssociated With: Brazil Programa Academia da Saude, Sobre o Programa, para 1Quote, Associated With: Brazil Programa Academia da Saude, Sobre o Programa, para 1
O Programa Academia da Saúde (PAS), lançado em 2011 e redefinido em 2013, é uma estratégia de promoção da saúde e produção do cuidado que funciona com a implantação de espaços públicos conhecidos como polos onde são ofertadas práticas de atividades físicas para população.
Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey: Achievements in the Last 20 Years (Epidemiology and Health)
Epidemiology and HealthAssociated With: South Korea National Health Plan 2030, Introduction paragraph on national health plans monitored by KYRBSQuote, Associated With: South Korea National Health Plan 2030, Introduction paragraph on national health plans monitored by KYRBS
In particular, under the fifth National Health Promotion Plan (Health Plan 2030, 2021â2030; Ministry of Health and Welfare), 17 performance indicators across 3 domainsâtobacco control, alcohol control, and physical activityâhave been monitored using KYRBS data since 2021 to assess progress toward policy targets.
ChileAtiende: Elige Vivir Sano
ChileAtiende, Ministerio de Desarrollo Social y FamiliaAssociated With: Chile Elige Vivir Sano, Page textQuote, Associated With: Chile Elige Vivir Sano, Page text
Actividad física : aquellas que fomenten el ejercicio y la actividad física como elementos fundamentales de la salud y el bienestar.
Health Education
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Health education is a profession of educating people about health.
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