Health Promotion Forum
Advocacy for health promotion
Moderators: Prof Walter Ricciardi, President, World Federation of Public Health Associations & Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Italy and Dr Lucy Anne Parker, Lecturer, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
Speakers
Organized by the World Federation of Public Health Associations
This session presents actual practices by different NGOs for the promotion of health and well-being. It aims to highlight the achievements and challenges in advocating for and enabling people to increase their control over health and improvement of health. Three experiences will be discussed. First, the panel will present a case study, led by public health advocates from the UK, about the enabling capacity of the WHO CC’s Guide on Investment for Health and Well-being related to health policymaking and decision-making. Second, the Canadian author of a case study on the integration of health impacts in climate change negotiations will highlight the challenges in finding the right approach for communication with other sectors. Third, health promotion advocates from Brazil will report on the processes of building health promotion policies in two Brazilian states with participation from government officials and non-governmental organizations. From these experiences, it will be possible to better understand the success factors of health promotion advocacy, considering the central role of civil society in moving towards healthy and equitable societies.