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This logo was created for the First International Conference on Health Promotion held in Ottawa, Canada, in 1986. At that conference, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion was launched. Since then, WHO kept this symbol as the Health Promotion logo (HP logo), as it stands for the approach to health promotion as outlined in the Ottawa Charter.
Jun 19, 2017 · In November 1986, 212 participants from 38 countries convened in Ottawa, Canada, at the first International Conference on Health Promotion organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), Health and Welfare Canada, and the Canadian Public Health Association.
Dec 12, 2021 · The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion provided a template that has fundamentally re-shaped public health practice in the past 35 years ().The compelling logic of its key strategies—build healthy public policy, create supportive environments for health, strengthen community actions, develop personal skills and reorient health services—now routinely provide a comprehensive and inclusive ...
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An international document that builds on the Ottawa Charter is the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalised World developed in Bangkok on 11 August 2005.. The Bangkok Charter identifies actions, commitments and pledges required to address the determinants of health in a globalised world through health promotion.
Ottawa, 21 November 1986 - WHO/HPR/HEP/95.1 The first International Conference on Health Promotion, meeting in Ottawa this 21st day of November 1986, hereby presents this CHARTER for action to achieve Health for All by the year 2000 and beyond. This conference was primarily a response to growing expectations for a new public health movement around the world. Discussions focused on the needs in ...
Overview "Health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life; where they learn, work, play, and love." T he Ottawa Charter, 1986. Healthy Settings, the settings-based approaches to health promotion, involve a holistic and multi-disciplinary method which integrates action across risk factors.
