Milestones in Health Promotion

Which of the following is the correct sequence of all international health conferences?

Ottawa; Adelaide; Sundsvall; Jakarta; Mexico; Bangkok; Nairobi; Helsink; Shanghai

Ottawa; Sundsvall; Mexico; Adelaide; Jakarta; Shanghia; Helsinki; Nairobi; Bangkok

Ottawa; Helsinki; Adelaide; Shanghai; Sundsvall; Nairobi; Jakarta; Bangkok; Mexico

Ottawa; Adelaide; Sundsvall; Jakarta; Mexico; Bangkok; Nairobi; Helsinki; Shanghai

Ottawa; Adelaide; Sundsvall; Mexico; Jakarta; Bangkok; Nairobi; Helsinki; Shanghai

What did the Sundsvall conference identify as ways of strengthening social action?

Strengthening advocacy through community action

Enabling communities and individuals to take control over their health and environment through education and empowerment

Building alliances for health and supportive environments in order to strengthen the cooperation between health and environmental campaigns and strategies

Mediating between conflicting interests in society in order to ensure equitable access to supportive environments for health

Building health literacy environments

Building individual health literacy so that people can participate in society more

What did the Jakarta conference identify as the current priorities of health promotion?

Promote social responsibility for health

Increase investments for health development

Consolidate and expand partnerships for health

Increase community capacity and empower the individual

Secure an infrastructure for health promotion

Move away from disease prevention

More towards health education

Promote social justice for health

What technical themes were not covered in the Mexico conference?

Evidence base for health promotion

Investment for health

Social responsibility for health

Building community capacity and empowerment of the individuals

Securing an infrastructure for health promotion

Reorienting health services

Building an ethical base for health promotion

Moving in an upstream direction

Bridging the equity gap

What key committments did the Bangkok conference make?

To make health promotion central to the global development agenda

Make health promotion a core responsibility for all of government

Make the promotion of health a key focus of communities and civil society

Make the promotion of health a requirement for good corporate practice

Make the prevention of chronic disease the focus of health promotion

Make the empowerment of individuals the focus of health promotion

Make the promotion of health literacy as integral in society

Which of the following was not identified as gap in implementation at the Nairobi conference?

Health programs where the evidence about good health promotion practice could be more effectively incorporated

Health systems, making the capacity of a health system to promote health itself an indicator of performance

In policy making and intersectoral partnerships where the social determinants of health, or the inequitable health impacts have not been considered

Health programs where ethical principles are not being adhered to

Health programs where education is not being focused upon

Which of the following was not recognised at the Helsinki conference?

Participants of the conference commit to affirm the compelling and urgent need for effective public coherence for health and wellbeing

Participation of the conference commit to addressing the social determinants of health

Governments need to commit to health and health equity as a political priority

Governments need to strengthen the capacity of Ministries of health to engage other sectors of government through leadership, partnership, advocacy and mediation

Governments need to focus on health promotion

The world health organisation needs to strengthen its own capacity in health in all policies

The world health organisation needs to focus on achieving the sustainable development goals

Which of the following are not included in the Declaration of the Shanghai conference?

Good governance creates policies for health and social justice

Cities and communities are critical settings for health

Health literacy empowers and drive equity

Health literacy empowers and drives equality

Cities and communities are critical settings for health promotion

Good governance creates policies for health and equity

Good governance creates policies for social development

Cities and communities should be considered as settings for health promotion

Health literacy empowers individuals

Which of the following were not explicit principles for health promotion according to the Copenhagen document?

It involves the population as a whole in the context of everyday lives, rather than focusing on people at risk of specific disease

It is directed towards action on the causes of determinants of health to ensure that the total environment which is beyond the control of the individual is conducive to health

It combines diverse, but complementary, methods or approaches including communication, education, legislation, fiscal measures, organisational change, community development and spontaneous local activities against health hazards

It aims particularly at effective public participation supporting the principle of self-help movements and encouraging people to find their own ways of managing the health of their community

Although health promotion is basically an activity in the health and social fields and not a medical service, health professionals, particularly in primary healthcare, have an important role in nurturing and enabling health promotion

It involves activities that are focused around disease prevention, health education and empowerment of individuals

Health is created in social settings, not hospitals

Governments are responsible for allowing people to make healthy choices

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