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 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.
As well as her involvement in the organizing and the programme committee for the 6th WHO global conference on health promotion in Thailand 7-11th of August 2005. She was one of the leaders of the track on globalization and gave the opening keynote at the conference “Health Promotion policies in a globalized world” (*.ppt). She was a member of the drafting group which finalized the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a globalized world.
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:
- Health and Modernity. The Role of Theory in Health Promotion, edited by David McQueen and Ilona Kickbusch, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-387-37757-5
- The move towards a new public health. IUHPE Promotion and education supplement 2 2007 page 9
- Responding to the health society. Editorial. HEALTH PROMOTI0N International. Vol 22 No 2 2007 pg 89-91
- Health promotion: Not a tree but a rhizome. In: Health Promotion in Canada. Critical pespectives. Eds. Michel O Neill et al. Toronto CSPI 2007-06-29
- Health and Wellbeing. In: Constructive Conversations about Health (ed. Marshall Marinker) Radcliffe 2006 pp31-40
- Health Literacy: Towards active health citizenship. (with Daniela Maag) in: Sprenger, M. (ED) Public health in Österreich und Europa. Festschrift Horst Noack. Graz 2006. pp151-158
- NAVIGATING HEALTH - The Role of Health Literacy (with Suzanne Wait, Daniela Maag), Alliance for Health and the Future, London 2006
- 21st century health promotion: the public health revolution meets the wellness revolution. Editorial. Health promotion International Vol 18 Nr. 4., 275-278, 2003
- Perspectives in health promotion and population health. In: American Journal of Public Health March 2003, Vol 93, No.3 pg383-388
- The Future Value of Health. In: Perspectives in Health. The magazine of the Pan American Health Organization. Centennial issue. Vol 7, No2, 2002. Pg 28-32
- The map is not the territory: five perspectives on how to interpret the world of health. Review for rhpeo 2001/7
In German:
- Gesundheit für Alle. GDI Impuls, Sommer 2006, S.16-23
- Die Gesundheitsgesellschaft. 2006 Verlag Gesundheitsförderung. Gamburg. www.conrad-verlag.de
- Magazin Gesundes Österreich Ausgabe 3/2006
Schwerpunkt dieser Ausgabe ist das Thema Ottawa Charta - Gesundheitsförderung. In : Das Public Health Buch. München: Urban und Fischer Verlag. Second edition 2003. pg 181-189
