Health Promotion International, Vol. 15, No. 2, 169-178,
June 2000
© Oxford University Press 2000
Healthy Islands in the Western Pacific—international settings development*
1 WHO, Office of the Representative for the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands, 2 WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, Richmond, Australia and 3 WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, Manila, Philippines
Address for correspondence: G. Galea WHO PO Box 113 Suva Fiji Islands
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
The health-related global conferences of the 1990s have highlighted the close relationship between health promotion and protection, the environment, and sustainable development. The 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Brazil); the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (Egypt); the 1994 Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (Barbados); the 1996 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Turkey); and the 1997 Conference on Health Promotion (Indonesia) all recognized the importance of improving people's health and protecting their living environment as an integral part of achieving sustainable economic growth.
A regional framework for action in the Western Pacific
In 1995, WHO's Western Pacific Regional Office published its health policy framework, New Horizons in Health (WHO, 1995a), a life cycle-oriented model that centres on the concepts of health promotion and health protection, and particularly emphasizes wellness, positive health and participation (Han, 1996
). Developed in response to the changing health needs and environmental conditions in
Healthy Islands and health-promoting settings
POLICIES, STRATEGIES AND LESSONS LEARNED
Policy development
Community participation and collaboration
Information and communication strategy
Developing personal skills
Reorienting environmental health services and building health-promotion capacity
IMPORTANT CURRENT ACTORS AND SUPPORTERS
Plan of action for malaria control—Solomon Islands
Healthy Islands Fiji
Village environmental health workers
Fiji Institute of Environmental Health
National Centre for Health Promotion
National planning
The challenge of bringing it all together
Healthy Islands Health Promotion Project
ORGANIZATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURES
OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
A national framework for action
Future development
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