EUPHA section on Health promotion

Presidents:

Thomas Abel, Dr.phil.,PhD
University of Berne, Switzerland
Division of Social and Behavioural Health Research
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
Phone: +41 (0)31 631 35 12
Fax +41 (0)31 631 34 30
e-mail: abel@ispm.unibe.ch
http://www.ispm.ch

Christiane Stock, PhD
University of Southern Denmark
Unit for Health Promotion Research
Niels Bohrs Vej 9-10
6700 Esbjerg
Denmark
Phone: +45-5660-4210
Fax:+45-6500-4283
e-mail: cstock@health.sdu.dk
http://www.healthpromotion.sdu.dk

The Health Promotion Section was founded at the 1995 annual EUPHA meeting in Budapest by Heiko Waller and Alf Trojan. Today the Health Promotion Section has about 1400 members (active and passive). The main task of the section is to promote exchange of research, training, and practice expertise in health promotion among European experts. It also aims at stimulating and supporting joint research projects of its members. Moreover the section recognises the importance of serving as a platform for the discussion of the theoretical foundations for health promotion as well as for advocating for health promotion within EUPHA and beyond.

The Health Promotion Section usually meets during the annual EUPHA conferences and organises workshops around actual topics. The section actively promotes publications of selected papers from these workshops.

Meetings:

1996 (London): Health promotion 10 years after Ottawa- views from different European countries
1998 (Göteborg): Recent developments of health promotion policy and research of the EU
1999 (Prag): Legal and financial conditions of health promotion- views back and ahead from different European countries
2000 (Paris): Reducing health inequalities through health promotion
2001 (Brussels): Health information(systems) for health promotion
2002 (Dresden): Progress and problems of health promotion in Central and Eastern Europe
2003 (Rome) : The role of health promotion in tackling inequalities in health
2004 (Oslo): Urban problems and health promotion
2005 (Graz): Linking health promotion and health care
2006 (Montreux): 20 years health promotion research in and on settings
2007 (Helsinki): Capacity-building in health pronmotion
2008 (Lisbon): Social and cultural resources for health: local level approaches

Cooperations:

The Health Promotion Section works together with other European organisations and initiatives in the field, especially with the European Regional Office of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) (www.iuhpe@easp.es) and with the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) (www.ensp.fr/aspher).