{"id":1990,"date":"2020-10-05T10:19:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T10:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/?page_id=1990"},"modified":"2020-12-23T15:45:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:45:50","slug":"pre-conference-helping-people-to-help-themselves-to-better-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unescochair-ghe.org\/fa\/pre-conference-helping-people-to-help-themselves-to-better-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-conference Helping people to help themselves to better health"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday 12 October 2020 the online pre-conference \u201cHelping people to help themselves to better health \u2013 From theory to practice<\/strong>\u201d took place. This pre-conference was part of the virtual 16th World Congress on Public Health. The pre-conference was organized by the WHO Collaborating Centre & UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education, EUPHA Health Promotion Section and EHESP School of Public Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The 2020 World Congress on Public Health offers an opportunity to reflect on the contribution of the public health community (people, institutions, knowledge, approaches, methods\u2026) to advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Public health brings an original perspective based on almost two centuries of research, policies and practices on population health and living conditions far beyond health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public health offers a strategic approach that aims to orient and support social change in order to improve living conditions for all and reduce health inequities. Such an approach based on coordinated intersectoral policies and actions should be built with people, not against them. Good knowledge of health determinants, social practices, cultures and the active involvement of the people themselves are key factors of effectiveness and sustainability. In order to be prepared for the future large-scale implementation, policies and practices are needed that target both people\u2019s ecosystems and agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, when looking at public health conferences such as organised by EUPHA or WFPHA, one still regularly comes across presentations that do not mention the role of the upstream determinants and the existence of a social gradient characterizing the distribution of behaviour-related risk factors. They hardly ever report on the inequitable distribution of resources and the overemphasis on individual behaviour that leads to blaming the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can we ensure policies and programmes take into account what is known from environmental determinants and health inequities in a participative manner? How can we realise concrete actions that are more than wishful thinking? Two promising answers that public health could offer are the implementation of the principles of health promotion and the recommendations of the WHO Commission on the social determinants of health (SDH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on the fruitful discussion we had on intersectoral approaches during the 2019 European Public Health Conference in Marseille, we will continue our discussions by engaging and expanding our network of participants on the ethical and operational aspects of these answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objectives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The pre-conference will result in a statement<\/strong> with the main conditions for large-scale implementation of policies and practices that leave no one behind, by reviewing the evidence and learning from innovations in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More specifically, our objectives are to describe and reflect on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. available evidence on the mechanisms underpinning participation, non-participation and victim-blaming;<\/li>
  2. factors explaining the over-investment in interventions targeting individual determinants of health at the expense of actions on the SDH;<\/li>
  3. innovations in participatory community-based interventions that improve daily living conditions and indicators of health and well-being;<\/li>
  4. enablers and barriers to scaling-up health promotion and community-based approaches.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Next to these objectives, we wish to create a space that supports international networking among professionals and researchers interested in advancing participatory community-based public health interventions. This is at the core of the activities of the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education and of the EUPHA Health Promotion Section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Speakers were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n