Renewing our Commitment to the Ottawa Charter: "The Way Forward"
The CCHPR, in collaboration with the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), has a strong interest in contributing to the establishment of recommendations regarding both the policy and system conditions necessary for sustainable and effective health promotion, as well as to the reaffirmation of a clear role for health promotion in the political, economic, social and global context and in terms of the impact of globalization on health.
To support this initiative, the objective of the project "The Way Forward" is to draft a recommendation statement derived from a larger collection of papers on 'the way forward' and to release it at the closing of the 19th IUHPE World Conference. This statement is to be developed with the close collaboration and input of a broad range of key institutions and experts from across the IUHPE network and in partnership with the CCHPR.
The organising construct and framework of the project will be an individualised synthesis drawing upon a number of sources and pulling out their key elements. At present, the range of sources includes, but is not limited to the following: the Ottawa Charter; the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World; HP-Source.net and its methodology; the conceptual frameworks for the WHO Commission on Social Determinants and Health (on structural and intermediate determinants, and on principles for policies on social determinants of health); and the WHO Euro Capacity Mapping Initiative. The resulting organising construct and framework will keep a broad focus in looking at both the policy context and the infrastructure, in terms of what policies are in place to develop workforce, to mobilise and support delivery mechanisms.
The main resulting deliverable will be an action-oriented set of documents, released in two parts, both of which will depend upon the content of the national reports commissioned and a period of analysis and synthesis. The first part will be a synthesis document including lessons learned building upon the information from the commissioned national reports. This brief document would assemble the key recommendations for policy-makers in a variety of domains and sectors. This component of the deliverables will be prepared for release at the closing session of the 19th IUHPE World Conference to be held in Vancouver on June 15, 2007. The second part will be the complete report, taking into account feedback on the synthesis statement from the global health promotion professional audience at the Vancouver conference. It will be released as a special issue of Promotion & Education, with significant material translated into French and Spanish.