Challenges in humanitarian emergencies and development cooperation

摘要

Much attention has been paid over the past twenty years to the complexities of relief and development cooperation in humanitarian emergencies, and the role that sectors such as health can contribute (UNSW Health and Conflict Project, 2004). However, literature on the particular role and impact that health promotion can contribute is scarce. Kolitha Wickramage's paper provides a succinct overview of the unique capacities that health promotion work can bring to vulnerable settings with particular attention to addressing the determinants through a multiple sector and multiple action approach as outlined in the various health promotion seminal documents, from the Ottawa Charter on.