Online Journal Friday, 16th July 2010
A successful close of the Anniversary Conference
The 20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion was focusing on health, equity and sustainable development. The coming months and years will tell if we have reached the main goal of our meeting which was to build bridges between health promotion and sustainable development.
There is a good chance that we will achieve this as the conference has been a resounding success with more than 2,200 participants attending from 123 countries and all continents. For all those involved, it has been an impressive gathering, with participants having the choice between a variety of events, ranging from poster sessions and oral presentations to plenary sessions, all in all more than 2,000 events - a flood of information and many opportunities for a lively debate.
The inspiring insights will now provide us with a strong impetus to follow this up in our day-to-day professional practice and life. We wish all participants of the 2010 IUHPE World Conference every success and would like to thank you for their enthusiastic contributions. We are already looking forward to the next World Conference which is due to be held in 2013 in Pattaya, Thailand.
Michael Sparks, President, IUHPE
Thomas Mattig, Director of Health Promotion Switzerland
Constructive Critical Voice on the World Stage
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Health promotion and sustainable development are a part of much larger process and a web of complex global issues that will have to be addressed in the years ahead, concluded the speakers of the closing session ‘Economic Change and Global Challenges.’ Our well-being is affected by policies, globalization, the economy and the environment, which is one of the major challenges we are facing today and in the future. It will be the task of the international community to analyze the complex connections and interactions and to deal with the issues in a sustainable manner. Read more |
How Facebook, Twitter and SMS bring health promotion forward
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The tiny room, in which the possibilities of new media in health promotion were discussed, was bursting at the seams. The interest of conference participants to use tools like Web 2.0, SMS, Facebook and Twitter for information procuration and campaign work was impressing. In health promotion, the expectations of new media are generally high. Never before had financing of a project been so easy, explained Judy Gold from the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Read more |
