Healthy and Sustainable Settings: Reflections and Future Directions

Objective:
To engage key individuals involved in initiating and developing the Healthy Settings approach in a critically moderated debate and dialogue – reflecting on the development and implementation of settings-based health promotion and exploring future directions in the context of 21st century forces, with a particular focus on equity and sustainable development.

Key questions:

• Looking back, how effective and influential do you feel that the Healthy Settings approach has been?
• One concern has been the lack of connectedness between different settings programmes. What do you think different settings can learn from one another, what are the opportunities for enhancing co-ordination and what can be done to assist that process?
• A second concern has been the lack of engagement with vulnerable and disenfranchised groups of the population. How can the Healthy Settings approach take account of this observation and what new settings would you prioritise?
• A third concern has been the need to join up the ‘health’ agenda with the sustainable development agenda – for example, enhancing connections between Health Promoting Schools and Eco-Schools or Health Promoting Hospitals and Greening Healthcare. How important do you think this is and what are the ways forward? 
• Looking ahead, what would your message be to those seeking to ensure that the approach remains relevant in the context of 21st century forces and maximise its contribution to health, equity and sustainable development?
  

Links to conference theme(s):
As above – the debate and dialogue will include a specific focus on the links between health, equity and sustainable development.

Debate and Dialogue Format:
Panelists and audience members will participate in a moderated critical and interactive discussion/debate on healthy and sustainable settings, drawing on their knowledge and experience concerning a) healthy settings in general, b) particular settings, c) geographical regions and c) organizational perspectives.

Panel moderator:
Prof. Fran Baum, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Australia

Panel members:

• Professor Cordia Chu, Director Centre for Environment and Population Health, Griffith University, Australia
• Dr Mark Dooris, Director, Healthy Settings Development Unit, School of Public Health and Clinical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, UK
  Presentation (PPS, 6.26 MB)
  
• Dr Gauden Galea, Co-ordinator, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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• Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
• Professor Albert Lee, Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
• Professor Jürgen Pelikan, Director Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Sociology of Health and Medicine, Vienna, Austria