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WHO meeting on health promotion concludes in HK

The three-day technical meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Hong Kong concluded Saturday after discussing issues on health promotion.


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The three-day technical meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Hong Kong concluded Saturday after discussing issues on health promotion.

The Evidence of Health Promotion Effectiveness Technical Meeting provided an opportunity for participants to share, preview and examine evidence of the effectiveness of health promotion from selected projects through presentations and discussions, said Director of WHO's Department of Non-communicable Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Pekka Puska.

"The meeting helped in developing guidelines for practitioners to plan and evaluate interventions. It also gathered input for WHO's future action in global health promotion programs and world conference," Puska added.

The director noted that the meeting was very important for the work of WHO, whose member states had repeatedly emphasized the need for solid evidence on the effectiveness of health promotion for their policy needs.

"WHO works on combating disease in multiple ways. But from a public health point of view, prevention is the key. Health promotion is usually the most effective approach to promote population health and it costs only a fraction of the escalating costs of clinical treatment," Puska noted.

Health promotion has emerged globally as an effective framework to address the broad determinants of health and enables individuals and communities to take control over conditions and circumstances that influence their health.

Hong Kong's Deputy Director of Health Regina Ching said one of the reasons that WHO invited Hong Kong to host the meeting was the city's determination to adopt evidence-based health promotion.


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