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Health Promotion International, Vol. 16, No. 1, 3-4, March 2001
© Oxford University Press 2001

EDITORIAL

Mexico conference on health promotion: open letter to WHO Director General, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland

Maurice B. Mittelmark, Professor, Marco Akerman, Professor, Doris Gillis, Assistant Professor, Karolina Kosa, Assistant Professor, Michel O'Neill, Professor, Danielle Piette, Professor and Head, Helena Restrepo, Consultant in Health, Irving Rootman, Professor and Director, Hans Saan, Senior Consultant, Jane Springett, Professor, Nina Wallerstein, Professor, Marsha Faria Westphal, Associate Dean and Marilyn Wise, Executive Director

Research Centre for Health Promotion, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway (initiating author) ABC Region School of Medicine, Santo André—São Paulo, Brazil Department of Human Nutrition, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada School of Public Health, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary Public Health and Medical Sociology, Université Laval, Québec, Canada Health Promotion and Education Unit, School of Public Health, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Promotion and Public Health, Colombia Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Woerden, The Netherlands School of Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, New Mexico, USA School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Australian Centre for Health Promotion, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia We want to thank you for attending the Global Conference on Health Promotion, held in Mexico City, 5–9 June 2000. We welcomed much of what you said in your opening speech.

However, we are seriously concerned about some of your comments. Your speech characterized health promotion as being narrow, and implied that under your leadership health promotion at WHO was being given a new and enlightened role in the organization's work. Among other themes you emphasized the importance of chronic and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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