1. [Health promotion 25 years after the Ottawa Charter].
- Author
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Pasquarella C and Pasquarella ML
- Subjects
- Global Health, Health Status, Humans, International Cooperation, Italy, Ontario, Public Health, Time Factors, World Health Organization, Health Education, Health Policy, Health Promotion organization & administration, Preventive Medicine organization & administration, Quality of Life
- Abstract
Twenty-five years have passed since the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion was signed at the First International Conference on Health Promotion, organized by the World Health Organization. This article traces the evolution of the definition of health, the introduction of the "salutogenesis" approach to health, the evolution of educational processes in community health, and defines the concept of health promotion, describing its application needs.
- Published
- 2012