Promoting health, promoting sustainable development: It’s our health, our future, our choice

How can everyone on the planet, from people living in cities to remote communities, attain the highest level of health? All-of-government action, healthy environments and an empowered and informed public are essential. A healthy population is also key to advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The 9th Global conference on health promotion, being held this November in Shanghai, will profile these and other innovative actions to promote health.

9th Global Conference on Health Promotion, Shanghai 2016

Promoting health, promoting sustainable development: It's our health, our future and our choice

The 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion (9GCHP) will be co-organized by WHO and the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of the People's Republic of China. The conference will provide an unprecedented opportunity to reassert the significance of health promotion in improving health and health equity at the historical moment of 30 years anniversary of Ottawa Charter, and the first year of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It will direct and guide Member States on the practical application of evidence-based health promotion concepts, approaches and mechanisms for achieving SDGs.

Goals

• To highlight the critical links between promoting health and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Objectives

• To provide guidance to Member States on how to reflect promoting health into national Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) responses, and how to accelerate progress on SDG targets.

• Exchange national experiences in:

• strengthening good governance for health through action across government sectors;

• broadening and strengthening social mobilization; and

• promoting health literacy.

• promoting health literacy as approaches.

• To highlight the health sector’s changing role as the key advocate for promoting health.

• To highlight the crucial role that cities – and municipal leaders, especially Mayors – play in promoting health (creating Healthy Cities), in the context of an increasingly urbanized global population.

Participation

• Ministers of Agriculture, Development Cooperation, Financing, Foreign Affairs, Health, Planning, and Trade.

• Public policy decision makers.

• Health promotion experts.