Can anyone clarify the correct definition of HP as set out in the Ottawa
Charter: Currently WHO uses the following definition on its site:

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over,
and to improve their health.

However, I have worked from a definition which is quoted in other texts (eg
Fran Baum in The New Public Health) in relation to the OC which reads as
follows:

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over
the determinants of health and thereby to improve their health.


Regards

Alan

Alan Sutherland
Health Promotion Policy Officer
Strategic Analysis and Research
Strategic and Corporate Support Division
Department of Health and Human Services
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