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Scientific Affairs

Breakdown of areas in the scientific affairs portfolio

In addition to publishing scientific journals and organising renowned world and regional conferences, the IUHPE pursues its mission and goals through the development of scientific activities, working in partnership with inter-governmental bodies, non-governmental organisations, networks, and national agencies. The IUHPE holds a unique position as a global independent network of health promotion professionals that also serves as a coordinating and facilitating agency of global, regional and national health promotion projects and initiatives.

The IUHPE is dedicated to strengthening knowledge-based health promotion policy and practice, which requires a commitment to knowledge development, translation and exchange. The Vice-President for Scientific Affairs leads this area of work by drawing on the contributions of individual and institutional members, and forming partnerships with organisations and networks with shared interests.

Health promotion in general, and the IUHPE in particular, is committed to the achievement of health equity. This necessitates engagement with diverse sectors to examine the impact of the social determinants of health and the effectiveness of actions being taken at global, national, and local levels. Additionally, the IUHPE has a keen interest in health promotion capacity building in low and middle income countries as a strategy for closing the global equity gap. Through multiple partnerships, the IUHPE acts as a technical agency to document and disseminate knowledge, and enhance the capacity to undertake health promotion action globally.

Using the Global Programme on Health Promotion Effectiveness and the range of Global Working Groups, the IUHPE exercises its convening role to explore such questions as:

• what creates health? how can health be equitably distributed?

• what health and social outcomes are achieved through health promotion? how should they be tracked?

• what constitutes evidence for health promotion effectiveness? 

• what health promotion actions are effective, for different health risks and populations, in different settings and at different levels of socioeconomic development?

• what infrastructure and capacity is required to achieve health promotion effectiveness?

• what decision-making processes and governance arrangements are conducive to equitable health development?

• what strategies and systems best support uptake of evidence into policy and practice?

Capacity building and knowledge dissemination within the IUHPE membership is undertaken through such mechanisms as the flagship journal Global Health Promotion and the suite of partner journals. The triennial world conference on health promotion represents the peak event for exchange, where members and friends come together to take stock of knowledge and experiences, and set the forward agenda for scientific development of the field.

• Global membership initiatives

• Global working groups (GWG)

• Collaboration with partner agencies
  

• Donors

• Networks

• Thematic Overview of Activities
  

  • Health Promotion Effectiveness

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    • Global Programme on Health Promotion Effectiveness (GPHPE)

    • Africa

    • Latin America

  
  

  • Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities

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    • DETERMINE-EU Consortium for Action on the Socio-economic Determinants of HealthGlobal Consortium for the Advancement of promotion and prevention in Mental Health
      

    • International Collaboration on Social Determinants of Health

    • Social Determinants of Health in Very Poor Ruralities

    • Tools for partnership activities in health promotion and evaluating interventions that aim to reduce social inequalities in health

    • Health promotion strategies to reduce social inequalities in health

    • Francophone collaboration on social inequalities in health

    • Global Working Group on Social Determinants of Health

  
  

  • Capacity building, Education and Training in health promotion

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    • Workforce development in countries with identified capacity needs

    • International collaboration on core competencies for health promotion practice, education and training

    • Developing competencies and professional standards for health promotion capacity building in Europe (COMPHP)

  
  

  • Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD)

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    • Building the case for healthy public policies on NCD in Africa

    • NCD Partner Forum

    • Building capacity of developing countries to prevent non-communicable diseases

  
  

  • Cardiovascular Health

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    • Capacity building in Africa to promote cardiovascular health

    • Addressing macroeconomic impact of cardiovascular diseases in developing countries

  
  

  • Community Health

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  • Environmental Health

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  • Mental Health

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    • Europe

    • Child Mental Health in the South West Pacific

    • Global Consortium for the Advancement of Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health

  
  

  • Physical Activity

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    • Global Advocacy for Physical Activity

  
  

  • Prevention of injuries and violence

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  • School Health

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    • Promoting health in schools: guidelines, advocacy & evidence, implementation & sustainability, monitoring & reporting
      

    • Teacher Training in Health Promotion and Health Education

    • International School Health Network (ISHN)

  
  

  • Tobacco Control

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  • Evaluation, surveillance and monitoring

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    • Health Promotion Effectiveness Evaluation in the Latin American region

    • Guide to evaluate programmes and interventions

    • Global working group on Surveillance

    • Global working group on Health Impact Assessment

  
  

  • Healthy Settings
    

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  • Salutogenesis

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  • International Health Promotion Programmes and Strategies

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    • Mapping of Health Promotion Policies, Infrastructures and Practices- HP-Source.net  (Europe: National-level HP, Alcohol, Mental Health / Southern Part of the Western Pacific / Sub-Saharan Africa)
      

    • Priorities for action to Shape the future of Health Promotion

    • Public-Private Partnerships to develop appropriate and sustainable health care systems

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