European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 15, No. 1, © European Public Health Association 2005; all rights reserved
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Health promotion in hospitals—a strategy to improve quality in health care
Oliver Groene1 and Svend Juul Jorgensen2
1 Technical Officer, WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services
2 Consultant, WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services
Correspondence: Oliver Groene, Marc Aureli 22-36, 08006 Barcelona, Spain, tel: +34 93 241 82 70, fax: +34 93 241 82 71, Email: ogr@es.euro.who.int
Keywords: health promotion, quality, standards, health promoting hospitals, reorientation of health services
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The international network of health promoting hospitals |
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The International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) was initiated more than 10 years ago with the aim to reorient health care institutions to integrate health promotion and education, disease prevention and rehabilitation services in the curative care.1 An increasing number of chronic patients, requiring continuous support, and hospital staff frequently being exposed to physical and emotional strains pushed in this direction.
Health promotion is defined in the Ottawa Charter as "the process of enabling people to increase control over, and improve, their health".2
Health in this context not only refers to the objective view of the absence of disease but also to implying a subjective and holistic view, adding mental resources and social well-being to physical health. Health promotion is understood to embrace health education, disease prevention and rehabilitation services, but stresses that information, education
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Public health relevance |
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Assessment of activities in the international network |
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Further developing health promotion in hospitals |
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Expanding the evidence-base for health promotion interventions
Standards for health promotion in hospitals
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