Health Promotion International, Vol. 16, No. 3, 215-217,
September 2001
© Oxford University Press 2001
EDITORIAL |
Health promotion and chronic disease: building on the Ottawa Charter, not betraying it?
In the first issue of Health Promotion International for 2001, a number of prominent health promotion academics took issue with the WHO (Mittelmark et al., 2001
). They raised concerns about linking health promotion to a narrower disease prevention and control agenda, by structurally locating it in the new Department of Health Promotion, Non-communicable Disease Prevention and Surveillance. There is no doubt that many in the health promotion community see this as a threat. Nevertheless, there may also be value, in a broader sense, in viewing the link between health promotion and the emerging agenda in chronic, non-communicable disease (NCD) control as a strategic opportunity.
Fifteen years on from Ottawa, health promotion can be seen in many respects to have made great progress. A strong evidence base for the effectiveness of health promotion has been established, and many health authorities now include some level of health promotion responsibility within
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