Health Promotion: a Strategy for the African Region: Report of the Regional Director
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Regional Committee for Africa Fifty-first Session, Brazzaville, Congo, 27 August – 1 September 2001: Provisional agenda item 8.5
1. Broad determinants of health, most of which are intertwined, underlie the double burden ofcommunicable and non-communicable diseases in the Region. To reduce the impact of thesedeterminants on health, it is necessary to apply integrative comprehensive approaches.2. Health promotion facilitates increased social and community participation in health. Whilehealth education is central to health promotion, legal, fiscal, economic, environmental andorganizational interventions are also essential. Health promotion contributes to programme impactthrough the prevention of disease, the reduction of risk factors associated with specific diseases, thefostering of lifestyles and conditions conducive to health, and increasing use of available healthservices.3. Health promotion is a cost-effective approach which has great potential for accelerating therealization of health for all in the Region. It is effected through the empowerment of individualsand communities, the changing of socio-economic conditions, mediation between different interestsin society (through healthy public policies), reorientation of health services and advocacy for health.4. The strategy proposed aims at supporting Member States to foster actions that enhance physical,social and emotional well-being and contribute to the prevention of leading causes of disease,disability and death.
1. Broad determinants of health, most of which are intertwined, underlie the double burden ofcommunicable and non-communicable diseases in the Region. To reduce the impact of thesedeterminants on health, it is necessary to apply integrative comprehensive approaches.2. Health promotion facilitates increased social and community participation in health. Whilehealth education is central to health promotion, legal, fiscal, economic, environmental andorganizational interventions are also essential. Health promotion contributes to programme impactthrough the prevention of disease, the reduction of risk factors associated with specific diseases, thefostering of lifestyles and conditions conducive to health, and increasing use of available healthservices.3. Health promotion is a cost-effective approach which has great potential for accelerating therealization of health for all in the Region. It is effected through the empowerment of individualsand communities, the changing of socio-economic conditions, mediation between different interestsin society (through healthy public policies), reorientation of health services and advocacy for health.4. The strategy proposed aims at supporting Member States to foster actions that enhance physical,social and emotional well-being and contribute to the prevention of leading causes of disease,disability and death.