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Health Promotion International, Vol. 18, No. 2, 85-87, June 2003
© Oxford University Press 2003

EDITORIAL

Health promotion in Africa: strategies, players, challenges and prospects

David Nyamwaya

Regional Editor for Africa
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Over the last 20 years there has been a significant acceleration in the development of health promotion in Africa. This development has now acquired a steady pace and the use of health promotion as a means for increasing societal responsibility for health now exists in all African countries. The combined use of diverse approaches to health promotion programmes is becoming the norm rather than the exception, and use of the term ‘health promotion’ per se is increasing. The development of health promotion can be seen, for example, in the comprehensive actions aimed at addressing the underlying causes of health problems, in the large number of professionals both inside and outside the health sector who describe themselves as practitioners, through professional associations which in one way or another include health promotion in describing their work, and by the review and adjustment of structures and policies in health systems to accommodate these . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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