Hello everyone and sorry for any crosspostings.

Just a word to inform the international Health 
Promotion community that a special series 
adressing the various issues regarding the Ottawa 
and Bangkok Charters and titled " Ottawa 
1986-Vancouver 2007 : should the Ottawa Charter 
be revisited ? " has been started in the Reviews 
of Health Promotion and Education Online (RHPEO), 
the electronic journal of the International Union 
for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). In 
addition to the latest version of the Bangkok 
Charter and the official IUHPE position in 
relation to it, 13 papers in English, French or 
Spanish by a wide variety of authors from all 
over the world including leading thinkers in the 
field (Mittlemark, Kickbusch, Restrepo, Nutbeam, 
Green, etc.) offer a variety of opinions about 
several of the issues raised below by Laverack 
and Labonté as well as about other relevant 
issues. Go and have a look at <www.rhpeo.org> . 
New papers are added regularly to this series and 
RHPEO receives an average of about 60,000 hits a 
month.

Michel O'Neill
Editor in chief
RHPEO

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>The following message was received by CLICK4HP  administrators from Glenn
>Laverack and Ron Labonte regarding the upcoming global health promotion
>conference in Bangkok.  As CLICK4HP list does not allow any attachments
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>open letter has been copied and pasted into this message below the
>signature.
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>---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
>From:    "Glenn Laverack" <[log in to unmask]>
>Date:    Sun, June 12, 2005 4:01 pm
>
>  Dr. Ron Labonte, myself and others have concerns about the purpose and
>usefulness of the forthcoming 6th Global conference on health promotion
>in Bangkok.
>
>Ron and myself have sent an Open letter to Dr. Lee Jong-Wook (DG, WHO)
>raising these issues and inviting a response. We also include an addendum
>to health promoters encouraging them to use their own professional
>influence to challenge WHO on these issues.
>
>Open Letter to the DG follows
>
>Best regards. Glenn Laverack.
>Director of Health Promotion
>The University of Auckland
>School of Population Health
>Dept Social and Community Health
>Private Bag 92019 Auckland, New Zealand
>Fax: 64 9 303 5932
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Open letter to Dr. Lee Jong-Wook (Director General, WHO).
>The World Health Organisation (WHO) will organise the 6th global
>conference on health promotion in Bangkok, Thailand from 7-11 August 2005.
>This is part of a prolonged process to develop a new charter for health
>promotion to be called ‘the Bangkok Charter’. This process is being met
>with a mixed reaction from international health promotion practitioners.
>Whilst many practitioners recognise that it is time to revise the Ottawa
>Charter for Health Promotion to take account of new health and
>geographical changes, a purposeful discussion within the global context of
>development and poverty alleviation is not being addressed.
>
>To that end, we invite you, and those in the WHO active in proposing and
>drafting the Bangkok Charter, to consider and reply to the following
>questions:
>
>1. How do you see the Bangkok Charter’s usefulness in terms of direct (or
>even indirect) benefits to the people suffering the consequences of
>poverty?
>2.  What are the opportunity costs to the alleviation of poverty and
>health inequalities of the expensive process of creating the Charter?
>3. What steps have you taken to ensure that the Charter is meaningful to
>practitioners and communities dealing with the worst burdens of disease?
>4. How do you anticipate that the Charter will actually influence health
>promotion funders?
>  5. The action areas of the Charter are worthy, how will you or those
>endorsing the Charter ensure that these action areas will be taken
>seriously by governments?
>6. What resources does WHO have to back up the implementation of the
>Charter through inter alia monitoring, evaluation, public dissemination of
>actions (or non-actions) of funders, governments and corporate
>stakeholders identified in the Charter?
>
>Dr. Glenn Laverack
>Director of Health Promotion
>University of Auckland
>Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
>Email: [log in to unmask]  Fax: 64 9 303 5932.
>
>Dr. Ronald labonte
>Canada Research Chair, Globalization/Health Equity
>Institute of Population Health
>University of Ottawa
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>Addendum to Health Promoters
>For those health promotion practitioners who share the concerns we have
>outlined in our Open Letter, it is now time to use your professional
>influence to challenge the WHO on how this process will really make a
>contribution to the alleviation of poverty, inequality and misery in
>developing and developed countries. This is particularly timely in light
>of international action to cancel debt owed by the world’s poorest
>countries and on tackling the social determinants of health.
>
>
>
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