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The European Journal of Public Health 2005 15(3):331-333; doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki147
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

European Public Health Association

President's Column: Health promotion in the local community

Gunnar Tellnes, Prof.

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There is both a strong political and economic rationale for governments to invest more in community based public health research and practice. The World Health Organisation therefore has significantly supported the shaping of health promoting settings at work, in hospitals, in schools and in local communities. Health promotion requires partnerships for health and social development between the different sectors at all levels of the community. New health challenges mean that new and diverse networks need to be created to achieve intersectoral collaboration.

Rapid processes of change in the community represent a challenge to public health policy. Public health research and practice should focus not only on factors causing disease and injuries (pathogenesis), but also factors promoting health (salutogenesis) in the perspective of health promotion and prevention in different settings. Tomorrow's society will most probably focus more on that which strengthens health, namely the salutogenic (health causing) factors as described by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Dineke Zeegers Paget, Dr

Anca Dumitrescu, Dr.


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