Some colleagues and I are interested in the status of health promotion, 30 years after the Ottawa Charter was conceived. Is health promotion in crisis or is it stronger than ever before? i would appreciate your thoughts or indeed any papers that discuss this issue. Many thanks
Interesting question Nigel. This depends where and what your focus is so I would say yes and no! As a `grass roots`practice it is still as active as ever but in certain parts of the world it is stuck in transittion (Africa) or weakened by poor government support (Australia). The world has changed since 1986 and the SDGs and interest in outbreak and health emergencies offer a range of new, and as yet undefined, opportunties. So a key issue is where will the future leadership come from to move HP forward -academia, the profession (IUHPE) and practice, the WHO? At present I see no clear leader and so maybe this is also a focus for discussion and mobilization.
annoyingly the website crashed just after i had submitted my reply! Briefly, it was a many thanks for your thoughts! I agree that leadership and how to re-mobilise in light of changes since 86 is a key challenge to be addressed. Interestingly i still find the 5 core areas of the Charter very relevant in most of my areas of work so as you propose, it is perhaps leadership that requires the focus for now.
This year the OC will be reviewed at several conferences/meetings but I feel that there is too much ownership from the original key authors to see it significantly updated-which is what we need and probably should have happened at the 25 year mark.
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