Change – Yes we can! Evidence on Salutogenic Pathways to Health Promotion

Objective:
To demonstrate the effectiveness of the salutogenic framework in the implementation of health promotion theory and practice.

Key messages:
Health promotion action needs to focus on how health is generated and stay on target regarding its original values and principles to maintain its legacy. The evidence on the effectiveness of the salutogenic model for health promotion is convincing. The sub plenary will demonstrate this fact drawing on global evidence and expertise. The salutogenic approach has a potential to find effective new pathways to health promotion. It is time to focus and implement the change initiated in 1986 and supplemented in 2005.

Key words:
salutogenesis, Ottawa and Bangkok Charters, health promotion, health determinants, empowerment, settings approach, quality of life, mental health, perceived health, healthy public policy.

Links to conference themes:
Sustainable development (process approach, healthy public policy), equity (social gradient, gender, human rights), participation (empowerment), health (salutogenesis)

Interactive panel:
This is an interactive panel responding to the contemporary salutogenic evidence base of the Ottawa Charter.
First a comprehensive model on the salutogenic interpretation of the Ottawa Charter will be presented (as published by Lindström and Eriksson 2008). Thereafter selected key elements of the Ottawa Charter and the Bangkok Charter will be addressed one by one (empowerment, health determinants, setting, process, synergy, investment, outcomes). For each element the evidence is shown and commented on by a pre-selected expert. In all, arriving at a set of evidence based statements on the inter-link of the salutogenic approach to the Ottawa and Bangkok Charters that the audience then can comment on. The panel participants reflect global perspectives and will relate to the cultural adaptation of the salutogenic model with regards to the objective of the session.

Chair:

• Prof. Bengt Lindström, Head of Research, Health Promotion Programme, Fölkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

• Prof. Bengt Lindström, Head of Research, Health Promotion Programme, Fölkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
• Prof. Shifra Sagy, Lecturer in Psychology at the Department of Education at the Ben-Gurion-University of the Negev, Israel
  

• Prof. Mima Cattan, Reader in Health Promotion, Healthy Ageing and Co-Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
  
• Dr. Monica Eriksson, Senior Researcher, Folkhälsan Research Centre, Health Promotion Programme, Helsinki, Finland
• Dr. Concha Colomer, Planificación Sanitaria y Calidad Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Madrid, Spain
• Prof. Jugal Kishore, Professor Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India
• Dr. Sonam Phuntsho, Head of Health Education Bureau , Ministry of Health, Bhutan
• Dr. Diane Levin, Director of Health Education and Promotion of Clalit Health Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel