Welcome to the Community for Health Promotion Initiatives (CIPS)!

Bienvenido a la Comunidad de Iniciativas de Promoción de la Salud (CIPS)!

Monday, 7 NOVEMBER 2011
11.30 a.m.– 2.00 p.m. Washington DC time
Room B (second floor), PAHO HQ, Washington DC
Elluminate:
www.paho.org/virtual/SDE/SaludUrbana&Determinantes(Spanish)
www.paho.org/virtual/SDE/UrbanHealth&Determinants(English)

Background

Over the years, PAHO has contributed to developing Health Promotion as one of the key cross-cutting issues within the Organization’s institutional restructuring (that also includes the following mainstreaming areas: human rights, gender, ethnicity, social protection and primary health care). The current endeavour of tackling the pending agenda of neglected diseases, non-communicable diseases and linking health to development, calls for a rigorous, up to date and strong response based on the best practices of health promotion. This event is a statement in such direction.

PAHO/WHO Guide for Documenting Health Promotion Initiatives

It is well recognized that there is an extremely rich experience base in health promotion, determinants of health and health equity in the countries of the Americas. Regrettably, most of the time these initiatives go undocumented, they are not systematically organized and disseminated, and they therefore go unnoticed. The PAHO/WHO Working Group on the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Health Promotion wanted to meet this challenge by developing and making widely available an instrument that would facilitate the documentation of such initiatives around the Region and the world. As a result, an electronic template/Guide was born, tested, refined and posted on PAHO’s Web site in English and Spanish. It is expected that through the use of this instrument by practitioners in the field and then posting the results on PAHO’s Web site, it will not only facilitate the capturing of local and national experiences, but it will lay the ground work for an interchange of critical information about what approaches are effective, how key challenges are overcome, and what it is about the context in which these initiatives are carried out that make them successful. This will also help to strengthen health promotion networks in the Americas and around the world. Once the PAHO site has been populated with experiences, it will also serve as a data base for informing the field, for providing examples that practitioners can emulate, and for offering a rich data source for researchers to analyze and draw conclusions.  http://www.paho.org/hpd