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26 maj 2024 · The settings approach has roots in the WHO Health for All strategy and, more specifically, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Healthy Settings key principles include community participation, partnership, empowerment and equity.
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Health promotion policy combines diverse but complementary approaches including legislation, fiscal measures, taxation and organizational change. It is coordinated action that leads to health, income and social policies that foster greater equity.
key stakeholders can use health promotion to advance health and well-being through empowerment by stimulating personal action; development of interest groups; community organizations and partnerships; and social and political action. As with other public health functions, the ultimate goal of health promotion is to improve health outcomes
The principles of human rights, social and environmental justice, solidarity, gender and inter-generational equity, and peace. New indicators of success, beyond gross domestic product, that take account of individual and societal well-being and lead to new priorities for public spending on health.
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to take control over and improve their health and its determinants. The aim of the well-being agenda is to create social, health, economic and environmental conditions that improve both individual and collective quality of life and give people and societies a sense of meaning and purpose.
Evaluation in health promotion Principles and perspectives Edited by: Irving Rootman, Michael Goodstadt, Brian Hyndman, David V. McQueen, Louise Potvin, Jane Springett and Erio Ziglio WHO Regional Publications, European Series, No. 92 Health Canada Santé Canada
Acknowledging that the health and well-being of the population is associated with peace, security, stability, improved productivity and economic growth and that socially and economically unfair and largely avoidable inequities within and between countries may have a reverse impact;
