Transformative health promotion actions are needed to achieve health equity and the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), advance human and planetary wellbeing, and …

The growing burden of non-communicable and newly emerging communicable diseases,
multi-morbidity, increasing health inequalities, the health effects of climate change and …

Since the Ottawa Charter in 1986, self-proclaimed health promotion practitioners around the
world have worked to promote health using more or less the same five action areas in their …

Understanding of health and its determinants is rapidly expanding and changing. The
emergence of chronic diseases as the leading cause of global disease burden and …

The current COVID-19 pandemic has exposed missing links between health promotion and
national/global health emergency policies. In response, health promotion initiatives were …

How should we invest precious health resources? At a time when chronic illness is
increasing, inequality persists and climate change is starting to impact our health, how can …

The Ninth Global Conference on Health Promotion in Shanghai in November 2016 will focus
on the role of health promotion in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …

Executive summary In the rapidly changing world of the twenty-first century, this strategic
foresight on the future of health promotion aims to inform future planning of the World Health …

These and other challenges call upon the health promotion community to confront and learn
from its own path, to continue to better understand and document its value-add and niche …

Health promotion is a key mechanism in tackling the foremost health challenges faced by
developing and developed nations. Covering key concepts, theory and practical aspects …