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Health Promotion International, Vol. 14, No. 4, 285-288, December 1999
© Oxford University Press 1999

Editorial

Global public health: revisiting healthy public policy at the global level

Ilona Kickbusch and Evelyne de Leeuw

Chair, Editorial Board, Yale University Maastricht University We are in a period of significant change for public health. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion acknowledged this process through its subtitle: ‘the move towards a new public health’. Initially, the new public health debate focused on public health revival, intersectorality and citizen participation. It found its exemplar expression at the local level through the Healthy Cities approach (Ashton and Seymour, 1988Go). Recently a new discussion has emerged which focuses on public health at a global level. It reflects on the balance between national and international responsibility for public health, revisits the mandate of international organizations, the social responsibility of private companies and the role and legitimacy of non-governmental organizations.

This new global dimension of public health was at the center of the Jakarta Conference on ‘New players for a new era’. Tobacco, HIV/AIDS, environmental pollution, food safety, invasive lifestyles, none of these stops at national borders. Yet . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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