2. Historical Development of HP
‘Health promotion’ is a relatively new term, but it is an
old concept.
‘Health promotion’ was used at national and
international policy levels during the 1980s (Berridge
2010), but promoting good health as an idea has been
around for as long as there have been attempts to
improve the public’s health.
To understand health promotion, and its place within
contemporary public health, you need to know where it
came from and how it developed.
3. Historical Development of HP
Indian system Traced back to 5000 BC
Ayurvedic Practices: Personal Hygiene, sanitation water supply,
Nityakarma
Chinese Medicine Dated back to 2700 BC
Hygiene, diet, hydrotherapy, message, Immunization
Egyptian: (From 200BC)
Collection of rainwater
Disposing waste
Small pox
Rap trapping for control of plaque
Using mosquito nets, encourage frequent bathing, controlling
excess use of alcohol
4. Historical Development of HP
Hebrew: The Judaic Hygiene Code or Hebrew Code 2000
BC
Health, Sanitation
Segregation of infected persons
Roman Empire
Safe drinking Water
Drainage construction
Waste Disposal
5. Historical Development of HP
2000 BC: Indus Valley
Sanitation
Drainage management
600-500 BC: Greece
Golden era
Sound body and sound mind
Hygine: Hygia: Goddes of Health
1200 BC: God of Medicine
Aesculapius: Hygia and Panacea
6. History of HP
Roman Empire:
State has role of people’s health
Transportation of clean water, paved street, sanitary
disposal, public bath
Census: for planning health infrastructures
Galen: Suggesting different factors such as predisposing,
exciting and environmental factors.
Medieval Pandemic (1000 to 1415 AD)
Babunic plague and pulmonary anthrax
Quarentine
7. Historical Development of HP
Hippocrates (460-377 BC)
An Airs, water and Places
Father of Medicine
TH MacDonald (1998)
Ancient Health Promotion
8. Historical Development of HP
Fertman et al, 2010
Radical Steps in Health Promotion:
First Radical Steps : 19th Century and beyond
Second Radical step: Lalonde report on A New Perspective on the Health of
Canadians
Third Radical Steps: Ottawa Charter of Health promotion to till the date.
9. Historical Development of HP
First Radical Steps:
Chadwick (1942)
Rudolf Virchow (1848)
Lamuel Shattuck (1850)
Public Health Act 1948
John snow work on cholera epidemic : 1948-1954 in
London.
CEW Wilsow: Define Public health in 1920 .
10. History of HP
1920 and 1930s: Antibiotic discovery
K. Park Mention 1920-1960 as a Health promotion stage.
11. Historical Development of HP
‘Health Promotion’: Coined by Henry E. Sigerist (1945)
A/C to him health was promoted by providing a decent
standard of living, good labor conditions, education,
physical culture, means of rest and recreation and
required the co -ordinated efforts of statesmen, labor,
industry, educators and physicians.
Concept of cost containment
12. History of HP
WHO 1948
Focused on Global Health Promotion
Defined HP in 1984
2001: International Classification of functioning , Disability
and Health
Focused on factors responsible for health promotion
IUHPE: 1951
SOPHE
13. Lalonde Report
Lalonde report on A New Perspective on the Health
of Canadians (1974): Health Field Model
Human Biology
Environment
Lifestyles
Health Care Organizations
Lalonde Report: A turning Point on Health Promotion.
14. US Surgeon General's Report on
HP and Disease Prevention (1979)
Health-related behaviors accounting for over 50% of the leading causes of
death, and the policies supporting such behavior.
Substance misuse and addiction (including tobacco and alcohol), poor
diet, sedentary behavior, and stress-related behaviors (including suicide,
violence, and reckless behavior).
Healthy people (1979-2020)
15. History of HP
1977: Health For All by the year 2000: 30th WHA
1978: Alma-Ata
Need of health promotion as well as curative and
rehabilitative services
16. Ottawa Charter for Health
promotion
1986
Third Radical step
First Int. Conference on HP
Ground Work for HP
Pre-requisites of Health
Basic Strategies
Actions areas
17. Second HP Conference
1988, April 5-9, Adelaide , Australia
Attention on “Healthy public policy”
18. Third HP Conference
1991 : Sweden: Sundsvall
Focused on creating Supportive environment
Four dimensions
19. Fourth HP Conference
1997, July 21-25, Jakarta
New Players for a new era leading HP into 21st Centuty
20. Fifth HP Conference
Mexico (2000, june 5-9)
Health Promotion Bridging the equity Gap
21. Sixth HP Conference
2005
The Bankok charter for Health Promotion in
globalization world
22. Seventh HP Conference
2009
Kenya
Five Thematic tracks such as Community empowerment,
Health Literacy, Healthy behavior, Health Service
management etc.
24. Ninth HP Conference
Shanghai on 21-24 November 2016.
Health promotion in the SDGs, Health for all and all for
health
Critical links between promoting health and the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development.
25. References
WHO websites
Theoretical Foundations of Health Education and
Health Promotion 3rd Edition, Manoj Sharma
A text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine
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