Alliance for Health Promotion

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The Alliance aspires to see empowered individuals and communities with ownership of knowledge and means to better control their health and fully enjoy it.

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Welcome to the official Alliance for Health Promotion (A4HP) Facebook page. For more information on the A4HP please contact our office at [email protected] or consult our website: www.alliance4healthpromotion.org

“Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health”
(WHO - Ottawa Charter 1986)

Health promotion and education is one of the most cost-effective approaches to reducing the huge gap of inequities - a major challenge for global health.

The Alliance for Health Promotion, established in 1997 at the 4th WHO Global Conference on Health Promotion in Jakarta, is an international NGO, registered with the State of Geneva. NGOs from different sectors with a strong commitment to health promotion are among its founding members. Through its wide network, the Alliance reaches out to local communities, even those in remote areas, bridging the gap between international declarations on health and the realities of local conditions.

The A4HP promotes the empowerment of individuals and communities with the knowledge and the means to better control their health and to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Good health leads to well-being and ultimately the alleviation of poverty and the prevention of diseases.

We organize activities at the international, regional and local levels through workshops, training sessions, forums and conferences on priority issues on the Global Health Agenda.

The A4HP also participates in project work on health and environment such as the health impact of climate change, strengthening community partnership and the economic empowerment of women.

Workshops are integrated into a one-week programme of mobile clinics, run by one of the A4HP members, the Afro-European Medical and Research Network (AEMRN) in Kitale, Kenya. The training aims to empower NGOs, health professionals and the local community to address priority issues of local interest related to health and the social determinants of health. In February 2015, the Alliance organised a Health Promotion Workshop in Bangalore, India.

The International Forum on Health Promotion is a major annual event of the A4HP. The fourth edition of the Forum was held 12 November 2014. Its theme addressed issues of health promotion at work and leisure among others.

- In 2016, the 6th global forum on Health Promotion was held in Charlottetown, PEI, Canada with the theme: Health Promotion at the very heart of sustainability.

On the A4HP Board the following organisations are represented:

Associated Country Women of the World - ACWW
Global Alliance on Women’s Health - GAWH
International AIDS Society - IAS
International Council on Social Welfare - ICSW
International Pharmaceutical Federation - FIP
International Health Co-operative Organisation - IHCO
International Federation of Medical Students Associations - IFMSA
International Movement for Fraternal Union among Races and
Peoples - UFER
International Pharmaceutical Students Federation - IPSF
Solar Cookers International - SCI
World Federation for Mental Health - WFMH