Objective of the workshop:
The aim of this workshop is to present state of the art in research and discuss one of the basic concepts of Health Promotion, Supportive Environments for Health (SE), 25 years after the 3 rd International Health Promotion Conference in Sundsvall and 30 years after the concept was launched in Ottawa Charter.
Background:
The concept SE is a strategic concept about creating environments for better health (make the healthy choices easy choices). It´s focus is on equity and it is setting based and enable possibilities for change. Further, it goes from the medical dimension to a broad environmental concept including social-, political-, economic-, culturaland existential dimensions namely a paradigm shift from biomedicine to sustainable development. As a consequence the concept therefor have an impact on established routines of work, job roles, means and methods, as well as ownership in terms of needs and problems to be solved.
Organization of the workshop
The premise for the workshop is that participants share experiences and take part in other colleagues' experience of the research field of SE in theory and practice. But the workshop is also intended for those who are interested to highlight SE in future research and PhD projects. The starting point will be an introductory review of the historic background and the basic elements of the SE concept. Followed by a literature review on how SE currently is applied in research and presented in doctoral theses. This workshop ends up with a general discussion on future challenges for the concept.
Health promotion, Supportive environments for health, Literature review
2016.
8th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference, June 20, 2016, Jyväskylä, Finland.