IUHPE Advocacy
The IUHPE’s core mission lies in making the case for effective health promotion and the development and implementation of healthy public policy. Our purpose is to influence and facilitate the development and implementation of health promotion knowledge, strategies and projects. Advocacy is one of the central strategies of the IUHPE to accomplish its mission and as such has a potentially large scope under which to work.
IUHPE OFFICIAL STATEMENTS
Most recent:
- People-Planet-Health, a position statement to support policy development on planetary health and wellbeing by the World Health Organization, December 2021.
- Critical Actions for Mental Health Promotion, position statement developed by the IUHPE Global Working Group on Mental Health Promotion, March 2021.
This document is also available in French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Finnish.
- Future directions for the concept of salutogenesis, Position Paper (summary), developed by the IUHPE Global Working Group on Salutogenesis.
This IUHPE paper is a summary of the full article “Future directions for the concept of salutogenesis: a position article” published in Health Promotion International, 2020.
- Renforcer les capacités d’adaptation des individus et des communautés en contexte de pandémie : le rôle clé du sentiment de cohérence, une publication endossée par l'UIPES et le RÉFIPS, et soutenue par le Groupe de travail mondial de l’UIPES sur la salutogénèse.
English version also available - Strengthening the adaptive capacities of individuals and communities in times of pandemic: the key role of the sense of coherence.
- Prise de position conjointe RÉFIPS/UIPES:. La promotion de la santé en temps de crise.
En tant que réseaux internationaux en promotion de la santé, l'UIPES et le RÉFIPS se sont unis pour positionner le domaine de la promotion de la santé en cette période de pandémie.
The document is also available in English, Spanish and Italian.
- IUHPE Position Statement on COVID-19 response for the Seventy-third World Health Assembly, 18-19 May 2020.
- A Health Promotion Focus on COVID-19. Keep the Trojan horse out of our health systems: Promote health for ALL in times of crisis and beyond!, EUPHA-HEALTH PROMOTION, IUHPE and UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education
The Health Promotion section of the European Public Health Association, the International Union for Health Promotion and Education and the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education share five talking points to contribute with a health promotion perspective to public health discussion on the implications of this pandemic.
The document is available in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
- COVID-19: Blending social determinants of health and intensifying existing health inequities. Statement of the IUHPE Global Working Group on Social Determinants of Health.
The document is available in English, French and Spanish.
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IUHPE Statement on the Political Declaration adopted at the UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage, 23 September 2019.
A summary is available in English, French and Spanish.
Learn more about IUHPE's involvement in the preparation of the UN High-level Meeting on NCDs and read the IUHPE statements:
- delivered at the 72nd session of the World Health Assembly (May 2019);
- prepared for the UN High-level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases (September 2018);
- and the connected statement submitted to the UN Civil Interactive Meeting (July 2018).
This document was written by the IUHPE Global Working Group on Health Literacy. A summary is available in English and Spanish.
Le document et le résumé sont disponibles en français.
Read this document together with the special issue on Health Literacy published in December 2018 in Global Health Promotion. It includes a wider discussion on Health Literacy and Health Promotion.
This document was written by the IUHPE Global Working Group on Health Impact Assessment.
Le document est disponible en français.
A summary is available in English, French and Spanish.
Read also: The special issue on Health Impact Assessment published in June 2017 in Global Health Promotion.
Health Impact Assessment (HIA): a tool for public decision-making towards healthy, sustainable and equitable choices. IUHPE guiding principles and recommendations for the implementation of HIA at the local level. The document is available in English and French.
Previous IUHPE positions:
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Call for Action on Non-Communicable Diseases (available in English: short version, long version and also in French and Spanish)
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Shaping the Future of Health Promotion: Priorities for Action
WORKING GROUPS AND KEY MEETINGS IN HEALTH PROMOTION POLICY
The IUHPE continues to have a seat and a say in high level meetings and partnerships geared towards policy-making and best practices exchange and implementation in health promotion. We have been actively involved in/ recently contributed to:
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the WHO Civil Society Working Group on the third High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on NCDs;
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the Technical Advisory Group and Strategic Advisory Network for the Development of the WHO Global Action Plan on Physical Activity (GAPPA); submitting a series of formal responses on behalf of the health promotion community;
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the WHO Global Conference on NCDs: Pursuing Policy Coherence to achieve SDG Target 3.4 on NCDs, in Montevideo, Uruguay, 18-20 October 2017. This event was attended by Heads of State, Ministerial and United Nations Agencies, as well as Invited Civil Society representatives. The IUHPE contributed to the Montevideo Roadmap 2018-2030 on NCDs as a Sustainable Development priority.
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the development of the Coalition of Partners convened by WHO/EURO to explore how best to strengthen public health services in the European Region; and.
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the Action Initiative Advocates Group of the World Obesity Foundation.
RECENT ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS AND ENDORSEMENTS
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#QuitBigTobacco: IUHPE stands with many of its partners and pledged not to work with Big Tobacco or its advertising partners and PR firms.
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Cape Town Declaration on Human Rights and a Tobacco-free World: IUHPE joined many of the participants in the 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health and was proud to sign this document linking Human Rights and Tobacco Control.
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Advocacy letter calling for the inclusion of physical activity in the WHO GPW 2019-2023: IUHPE co-signed an advocacy letter calling for the inclusion of physical activity in the WHO General Programme of Work 2019-2023 and endorsing the inclusion of a physical activity target in the GPW Impact Framework. IUHPE also supported, together with NCD Alliance and the International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH), the statement submitted by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) concerning agenda item 4.2 Physical activity for health of the 142th session of the WHO Executive Board meeting.
We are pleased to report that the targets and indicators present in the GPW Impact Framework, as of March 5, 2018, include a “7% relative reduction in the prevalence of insufficient physical activity in persons aged 18+ yrs.”
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IUHPE has endorsed three position papers of the ISPAH: the Toronto Charter for Physical Activity: A Global Call to Action; Investments that work for physical activity; and the Bangkok Declaration on Physical Activity for Global Health and Sustainable development. These documents are available in multiple languages on ISPAH’s website (see the link above).
PARTNER CAMPAIGNS SUPPORTED BY THE IUHPE:
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ENOUGH, NCD Alliance;
- #beatNCDs, WHO.