About: Health Promotion

Vision

Healthier people through healthier decisions

Mission

Advocate and mobilize for improving health throughout the life course

Goal

To promote health and wellbeing among individuals, communities and populations by improving daily living conditions and by enabling individuals, communities and populations to address the broad determinants of health in order to reduce the vulnerability and risks to ill health and disability throughout the life cycle, especially among poor and marginalized groups.

Resolutions

• WPR/RC61.R6 Healthy Settings (2010)
• WPR/RC44.R11 Health Promotion (1993)

WHO Collaborating Centres

• WHO Collaborating Center for Healthy Urbanization
  Office of the Shanghai Municipal Health Promotion Committee
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research
  Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
  Health Promotion Board (HPB), Singapore
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion
  Shanghai Health Education Institute, China
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Health of the Elderly
  Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Health of the Elderly
  Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital