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The basic strategies for health promotion were prioritized as: [citation needed] Advocate: Health is a resource for social and developmental means, thus the dimensions that affect these factors must be changed to encourage health.
The WHO's 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and then the 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World defines health promotion as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health". [2]
The 1978 World Health Organization (WHO) declaration at Alma-Ata was the first formal acknowledgment of the importance of intersectoral action for health. [5] The spirit of Alma-Ata was carried forward in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (adopted in Ottawa in 1986), which discussed "healthy public policies" as a key area for health promotion.
In the higher education setting, the process of health promotion is applied within a post-secondary academic environments to increase health and wellbeing. [1] The process needs professionals to engage in all five WHO Ottawa Charter Health Promotion Actions and particularly reorient all the sectors of a college campus towards evidence-based prevention, utilizing a public health/population ...
The basis of the Health For All strategy is primary health care. Two decades later, WHO Director General Lee Jong-wook (2003–2006) reaffirmed the concept in the World Health Report 2003: [2] Health for all became the slogan for a movement.
The Jakarta Declaration on Leading Health Promotion into the 21st Century is the name of an international agreement that was signed at the World Health Organization's 1997 Fourth International Conference on Health Promotion held in Jakarta.[1]
In 2004, the First Ministers came to an agreement with the federal government on a ten-year plan to improve Canada's healthcare. [158] Areas of focus included wait times, home care, primary care reform, national pharmaceuticals strategy, prevention, promotion and public health, aboriginal health, and the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch ...
The purpose of this conference was to specify the goals of PHC and to achieve more effective strategies. [citation needed] As a result, Selective Primary Health Care (PHC) was introduced. As opposed to PHC of the Alma-Ata Declaration, Selective PHC presented the idea of obtaining low-cost solutions to very specific and common causes of death.