Sorry for cross-postings.
As it is very short when reformated, as not everyone will have the patience
to go on either the WHO website or other websites where it has been posted,
and as it is likely to have a major impact (think about Health for All, for
instance) if it is adopted by the World Health Assembly and due to the
context of a parallel resolution of WHO executive board for a new Director
General (Gro Harlem Bruntland, from Norway), who is in my view likely to be
a very strong ally for health promotion, I thought appropriate to circulate
the resolution below downloaded from Bo Haglund's website in Sweden. Ilona
Kickbusch rides again !!!
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RESOLUTION OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE WHO
A resolution on Health Promotion based on the Jakarta Declaration has been
adopted by WHOs Executive Board in its meeting in the 28th of January 1998
(101st session). It will be forwarded to this years World Health Assembly
in May. It is the first ever such resolution on health promotion.
From the 101st Session EB101.R8, Agenda item 9, 24 January 1998, Health
Promotion ,
The Executive Board,
Having considered the report of the Director-General on health promotion,
RECOMMENDS to the Fifty-first World Health Assembly the adoption of the
following Resolution:
The Fifty-first World Health Assembly,
Recalling Resolution WHA42.44 on health promotion, public information and
education for health and the outcome of the four international conferences
on health promotion (Ottawa,1986; Adelaide, 1988; Sundsvall, Sweden 1991;
Jakarta 1997);
Recognizing that the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion has been a
worldwide source of guidance and inspiration for health promotion
development through its five essential strategies to build healthy public
policy, create supportive environments, strengthen community action,
develop personal skills, and reorient health services;
Mindful that there is now clear evidence that: (1) comprehensive approaches
that use combinations of the five strategies are the most effective; (2)
certain settings offer practical opportunities for the implementation of
comprehensive strategies, such as cities, islands, local communities,
markets, schools, workplaces, and health facilities; (3) people have to be
at the centre of health promotion action and decision-making processes if
they are to be effective; (4) access to education and information is
essential in achieving effective participation and the "empowerment" of
people and communities; (5) health promotion is a "key investment" and an
essential element of health development;
Mindful of the new challenges and determinants of health and that new forms
of action are needed to free the potential for health promotion in many
sectors of society, among local communities, and within families, using an
approach based on sound evidence where feasible;
Appreciating that there is a clear need to break through traditional
boundaries within government sectors, between governmental and
nongovernmental organizations, and between the public and private sectors;
Confirming the priorities set out in the Jakarta Declaration for Health
Promotion in the Twenty-first Century,
1. URGES all Member States:
(a) to promote social responsibility for health;
(b) to increase investments for health development;
(c) to consolidate and expand "partnerships for health";
(d) to increase community capacity and "empower" the individual in matters
of health;
(e) to secure an infrastructure for health promotion;
2. CALLS ON organizations of the United Nations system, intergovernmental
and nongovernmental organizations and foundations, donors and the
international community as a whole:
(a) to mobilize Member States and assist them to implement these strategies;
(b) to form global health promotion networks;
3. CALLS ON the Director-General:
(a) to enhance the Organizationīs capacity with that of the Member States
to foster the development of health promoting cities, islands, local
communities, markets, schools, workplaces, and health facilities;
(b) to implement strategies for health promotion throughout the life span
with particular attention to the vulnerable groups;
4. REQUESTS the Director-General:
(a) to take the lead in establishing an alliance for global health
promotion and in enabling Member States to implement the Jakarta
Declaration;
(b) to support the development of health promotion within the Organization.
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Une tres bonne journee.
Michel O'Neill, Ph.D.
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