scholarly journals Implementation of the Bangkok Charter on Health Promotion in a Globalized World: experience and challenges of selected high income countries in Europe

2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 254-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwok-cho Tang ◽  
Robert Beaglehole ◽  
Bosse Pettersson
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
High Income ◽  
Globalized World

Mission and Structure of Health Services

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianna Diomidous ◽  
Andriana Magdalinou ◽  
Orsolya Varga
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Globalized World

This chapter aims at providing the student with a general overview of the appropriate structure and ethics healthcare organizations are based on, the concept of ethical leadership, the importance of having clear statements of mission, vision and value in healthcare organizations and the Health Promotion Charters implemented in a Globalized World.

scholarly journals Community capacity building and health promotion in a globalized world

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 84-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Raeburn ◽  
Marco Akerman ◽  
Komatra Chuengsatiansup ◽  
Fanny Mejia ◽  
Oladimeji Oladepo
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Globalized World

scholarly journals Chronic noncommunicable diseases, health promotion human rights and poverty in a globalized world

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Milanka Petković-Košćal ◽  
Vlasta Damjanov ◽  
Isidor Jevtović ◽  
Miroljub Jovanović ◽  
Vesna Pantović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Globalized World

scholarly journals Why Community Health Systems Have Not Flourished in High Income Countries: What the Australian Experience Tells Us

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran Baum ◽  
Toby Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health System ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
High Income ◽  
Community Health Systems ◽  
Effective Community

Background: Despite the value of community health systems, they have not flourished in high income countries and there are no system-wide examples in high income countries where community health is regarded as the mainstream model. Those that do exist in Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom provide examples of comprehensive primary healthcare (PHC) but are marginal to bio-medical primary medical care. The aim of this paper is to examine the factors that account for the absence of strong community health systems in high income countries, using Australia as an example. Methods: Data are drawn from two Australian PHC studies led by the authors. One examined seven case studies of community health services over a five-year period which saw considerable health system change. The second examined regional PHC organisations. We conducted new analysis using the ‘three I’s’ framework (interests, institutions, ideas) to examine why community health systems have not flourished in high-income countries. Results: The elements of the community health services that provide insights on how they could become the basis of an effective community health system are: a focus on equity and accessibility, effective community participation/control; multidisciplinary teamwork; and strategies from care to health promotion. Key barriers identified were: when general practitioners (GPs) were seen to lead rather than be part of a team; funding models that encourage curative services rather than disease prevention and health promotion; and professional and medical dominance so that community voices are drowned out. Conclusion: Our study of the community health system in Australia indicates that instituting such a system in high income countries will require systematic ideological, political and institutional change to shift the overarching government policy environment, and health sector policies and practices towards a social model of health which allows community control, and multidisciplinary service provision.

Community intervention trials in high-income countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
John W. Farquhar ◽  
Lawrence W. Green
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Community Intervention ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
High Income ◽  
Community Transformation ◽  
Intervention Trials

Community intervention trials in high-income countries. This chapter summarizes results of combined mass media and community organizing methods used and evaluated during the past 40 years to achieve chronic disease prevention through changes in behaviour and risk factors. These studies are examples of experimental epidemiology and community-based participatory research, using cost-effective health promotion methods. The chapter also reviews earlier experiences in public screening, immunization, family planning, HIV/AIDS, and tobacco control, which provided useful theory and methods on which the later trials built. Major advances in theory development and intervention methods occurred in the 1970s from two pioneering community intervention projects on cardiovascular disease prevention from Stanford (USA) and Finland. These projects, followed in the 1980s and beyond in North America, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere, added many major lessons in both theory and practice. These lessons, considered ‘operational imperatives’, are: economic, social normative (or ‘denormalization’), informed electorate, public health, surveillance, comprehensiveness, formative, ecological, and logical sequencing of needs and action. Therefore, these recent decades of applying ‘total community’ health promotion in developed countries achieved considerable change at reasonable cost. Such communities were changed greatly through organizing and education; changes requiring advocacy, activism, partnership building, leadership, and regulations. This results in community transformation, creating ‘community efficacy’, a composite of enhanced self-efficacy of the community’s residents and leaders. Such transformed communities, as models, allow leverage in disseminating methods, including regulatory tactics. Such dissemination can lead to national changes analogous to those of the recent decade’s tobacco control successes.

International perspectives

2018 ◽  
pp. 173-202
Author(s):  
Colin Palfrey
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
International Health ◽  
Community Action ◽  
World Health ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Globalized World

This chapter considers international perspectives in the area of health promotion. It begins with an overview of health promotion as a global enterprise, citing major developments such as the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Alma Ata Declaration, and the introduction of the notion of the social determinants of health by Thomas McKeown. It then examines the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986) and the five health promotion areas that it identified for achieving better health: building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and reorienting health services. The chapter goes on to discuss other international health promotion initiatives, including the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World (2005) and the Helsinki Global Conference on Health Promotion (2013). Finally, it analyses the role of the WHO in health promotion, along with the issues of health inequalities and health inequities.

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