Mainstreaming health promotion

摘要

Since the Ottawa Charter in 1986, self-proclaimed health promotion practitioners around the world have worked to promote health using more or less the same five action areas in their organizations and communities. In my opinion, it is a strength of health promotion that health promoters globally can connect to one another in very concrete ways, while at the same time, because there are no strict protocols requiring a limited range of practice, there is a richness of interpretations and actions that reflect the flexibility of the field. Given the range of actions, health promoters can be found everywhere, acting as community developers, organization collaborators, and policy-makers, to name a few examples. This diversity of actions within multiple disciplines has been a strength, but also a liability for the field.