Health promotion - World Health Organization (WHO)
May 26, 2024 · “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.” Health Promotion Glossary, 1998. A brief history of Health Promotion. The first International Conference on Health Promotion was held in Ottawa in 1986, and was primarily a response to growing expectations for a new public health ...
Promoting well-being - World Health Organization (WHO)
Well-being is a positive state experienced by individuals and societies. Similar to health, it is a resource for daily life and is determined by social, economic and environmental conditions. Well-being encompasses quality of life and the ability of people and societies to contribute to the world with a sense of meaning and purpose. Focusing on well-being supports the tracking of the …
Mental health - World Health Organization (WHO)
The health sector can contribute significantly by embedding promotion and prevention efforts within health services; and by advocating, initiating and, where appropriate, facilitating multisectoral collaboration and coordination. Suicide prevention is a global priority and included in the Sustainable Development Goals.
Health promotion - World Health Organization (WHO)
Aug 20, 2016 · Health promotion enables people to increase control over their own health. It covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions that are designed to benefit and protect individual people’s health and quality of life by addressing and preventing the root causes of ill health, not just focusing on treatment and cure.
Health Promotion - World Health Organization (WHO)
"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.
Improving LGBTIQ+ health and well-being with consideration for …
Feb 11, 2022 · LGBTIQ+ health refers to the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer (LGBTIQ+). The plus sign represents the vast diversity of people in terms of sexual orientation, gender identity, expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). The LGBTIQ+ acronym is dynamic and can vary …
Promoting adolescent well-being - World Health Organization …
Oct 15, 2024 · There are nearly 1.2 billion adolescents (10-19 years old) worldwide. In some countries, adolescents make up as much as a quarter of the population and the number of adolescents is expected to rise through 2050, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where close to 90% of 10- to 19-year-olds live.
Health Promotion Glossary of Terms 2021 - World Health …
Dec 6, 2021 · Hyperlinks were correct at the time of publication but are subject 2 Health Promotion Glossary of Terms 2021 to inevitable change. In some examples the definitions have been adapted to reflect the application of a term to the current health promotion context. Where relevant, this focus is acknowledged in individual definitions.
10th Global Conference on Health Promotion - World Health …
Health promotion is about creating the conditions and conducive environment for healthy choices for all and where people live, work, age and play. The Conference will address how health promotion can contribute to creating flourishing and well-being societies through health-conscious citizens, community engagement and health-oriented public ...
Promoting health and well-being - World Health Organization …
The cluster of activities and programmes to promote health and well-being throughout the life cycle brings together public health traditions that have shaped the work of WHO over decades: the disease-control and environmental hygiene programmes that were its foundation; the work on essential public health functions, social determinants and ...