Health promotion

With the Ottawa Charter, the health promotion community has initiated the third public health revolution and heralded a new public health, which considers health ‘a resource for living’, places it firmly within the context of everyday life and has empowerment at its very core.

Ilona Kickbusch, and Lea Payne, Twenty-first century health promotion: the public health revolution meets the wellness revolution Health Promotion International, Vol. 18, No. 4, 275-278, December 2003

The year 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion.

During her distinguished career with the World Health Organization Ilona Kickbusch contributed significantly to the development of the new field of health promotion. She initiated the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion in 1986, which has become a seminal document of the new public health. She was the initiator of the WHO Healthy Cities project and other world wide initiatives such as health promoting schools, now known as the setting approach in health promotion. She was the founder of the journal Health Promotion International in 1986 and serves as the chair of the editorial board.

She continues to be fully involved in health promotion development and serve on a wide range of boards and advisory groups related to health promotion. In 2005 she was a member of the drafting group which finalized the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a globalized world on occasion of the  6th WHO global conference on health promotion in Thailand 7-11th of August 2005. In 2006 - 2007 she was widely engaged in a range of events and publications which celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Ottawa Charter. These included a closing keynote presentation at the Vancouver Conference of the IUHPE "Health promotion comes of Age" in June 2007.

NEW: She now serves as an advisor to the 20th Conference 20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion,11-15 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland which will focus on the subject of Health, equity and sustainable development.

Her new book “Die Gesundheitsgesellschaft” (2006 in German only) analyzes the significance of the health definition of the Ottawa Charter for modern health policy.

Some key readings:

In German:

 

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