Health: EuroHealthNet's call for a more social and sustainable society

Thursday, 29 September 2016

EuroHealthNet is launching a statement on the role and contribution of health promotion to achieving sustainable development and social progress – and thereby greater health and wellbeing in the coming decade.

The Health Promotion Statement – Promoting Health and Wellbeing towards 2030: taking the Ottawa Charter Forward in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 – presents the REJUVENATE Framework: Ten steps to promote health in a rapidly changing world to create a healthier, more equitable and sustainable future.

The Statement presents top ten approaches by which health promotion can contribute to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Urgent discussion is needed on how to transform these SDGs into concrete policies, strategies and practices, at all levels of government in Europe. For example, the potential EU Pillar of Social Rights and the opportunities it presents to act on the “causes of the causes of ill health” and improve the wellbeing of European citizens is extremely relevant and its implementation will be supported by the health promotion community, as reflected by the Statement.

Read the Health Promotion Statement in attachment!