Health Promotion

Health is created and lived by people within the environments of their every day lives. As a core function of public health, health promotion supports governments, communities and individuals cope with and address health challenges. This is done through building healthy public policies, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action and personal skills.

In addition to continuing advocacy efforts, the emphasis of health promotion in the Western Pacific Region is currently on building health promotion capacity (financing and infrastructure), urban health (including healthy cities and health equity through Urban HEART), healthy settings (including schools and workplaces) and healthy islands.