Ottawa revisited: 'enable, mediate and advocate'
Author(s) -
Michael Kokeny
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
health promotion international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.705
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1460-2245
pISSN - 0957-4824
DOI - 10.1093/heapro/dar065
Subject(s) - charter , health promotion , politics , public health , public relations , political science , health policy , key (lock) , medicine , nursing , computer security , law , computer science
The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion represents a turning point in public health thinking. The key messages and approaches, such as 'enabling, mediating and advocating', of this historical paper have not lost their timeliness and they are still considered to be the lessons for those health policy-makers who are willing to move beyond the health sector and to push health higher on the political agenda.
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