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Health Promotion International 2005 20(1):1-6; doi:10.1093/heapro/dai001
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EDITORIALS

The Bangkok Conference: steering countries to build national capacity for health promotion

John Catford, Editor in Chief

E-mail: hpi@deakin.edu.au

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Millions of young people in the developing world never achieve two decades of life, let alone seven, and so it is with mixed feelings that Health Promotion International celebrates its 20th birthday this issue. Much has been written and said about the antecedents and milestones of the health promotion phenomenon [e.g. (Catford, 2004Go)], but what is clear from history is that any rapidly growing movement or organization needs to re-invigorate its purpose for existence as well as build its capacity for success. This is vital if health promotion is to be truly a response to both national and global challenges. The forthcoming Bangkok Conference and foreshadowed Bangkok Conference will seek to fill this gap.

The leadership of the World Health Organization (WHO) over this period has been paramount and has been enacted through a series of International Conferences on Health Promotion (Ottawa in 1986, Adelaide in 1988, Sundsvall in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

THE BANGKOK CHARTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION

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