A resolution on Health Promotion based on the Jakarta Declaration has been adopted by WHOs Executive Board in its meeting last week (101st session). It can be accessed on the WHO website. It will be forwarded to this years World Health Assembly in May.
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway, has been nominated by the same Exective Board for the post of the Director General of WHO. More information can be accessed on the WHO website. http://www.who.ch
Submitted by Ilona Kickbusch [to Health-Promotion & to CLICK4HP list-servs]
Michel O'Neill supplied the following text from the WHO web-site:
The [WHO] Executive Board,
Having considered the report of the Director-General on health promotion, RECOMMENDS to the Fifty-first World Health Assembly the adoption of the following Resolution:
The Fifty-first World Health Assembly,
Recalling Resolution WHA42.44 on health promotion, public information and education for health and the outcome of the four international conferences on health promotion (Ottawa,1986; Adelaide, 1988; Sundsvall, Sweden 1991; Jakarta 1997);
Mindful that there is now clear evidence that:
(1) comprehensive approaches that use combinations of the five strategies are the most effective;
(2)certain settings offer practical opportunities for the implementation of comprehensive strategies, such as cities, islands, local communities, markets, schools, workplaces, and health facilities; (3) people have to be at the centre of health promotion action and decision-making processes if they are to be effective;
(4) access to education and information is essential in achieving effective participation and the "empowerment" of people and communities;
(5) health promotion is a "key investment" and an essential element of health development;
Mindful of the new challenges and determinants of health and that new forms of action are needed to free the potential for health promotion in many sectors of society, among local communities, and within families, using an approach based on sound evidence where feasible; Appreciating that there is a clear need to break through traditional boundaries within government sectors, between governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and between the public and private sectors;
Confirming the priorities set out in the Jakarta Declaration for Health Promotion in the Twenty-first Century,
1. URGES all Member States:
(a) to promote social responsibility for health;
(b) to increase investments for health development;
(c) to consolidate and expand "partnerships for health";
(d) to increase community capacity and "empower" the individual in matters of health;
(e) to secure an infrastructure for health promotion;
2. CALLS ON organizations of the United Nations system, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and foundations, donors and the international community as a whole:
(a) to mobilize Member States and assist them to implement these strategies;
(b) to form global health promotion networks;
3. CALLS ON the Director-General:
(a) to enhance the Organization
