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Health Promotion International, Vol. 15, No. 2, 95-97,
June 2000
© Oxford University Press 2000
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Perspectives on health promotion: theory, evidence, practice and the emergence of complexity
This issue contains four articles under the heading perspectives. Two of these provide an overview of health promotion in Canada and Europe, and two illustrate the role of settings in the practice of health promotion. What is noteworthy is how they reflect the gestation, development and maturity of health promotion as a field of action. It has been less than two decades since the watershed event of Ottawa, nonetheless we are now at a stage where it is useful and pertinent to take stock of where health promotion is today and what challenges lie ahead for the field.
At the time of the Ottawa Charter, health promotion was still consumed with defining its role. Hygiene and public health had been well established in the first three-quarters of the 20th century. The challenge for health promotion was to define its niche in public health. Was it the core of a
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