20/20 Vision - 20 Years since Ottawa, 20 Years from Now

13 to 16 March 2005, National Convention Centre, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

2005 is a significant year for health promotion as it is 20 years since the drafting of the Ottawa Charter that was presented at the meeting of the 1st International Conference on Health Promotion held in Ottawa, Canada. At that meeting Australia, together with many other nations, signed the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion,which established an action framework for health promotion.

The 2005 Conference theme is ‘20/20 Vision – 20 years since Ottawa, 20 years from now’. The Conference will reflect on achievements in health promotion over the last 20 years and will present a vision for health promotion in Australia to reflect emerging health issues and evidence based practice.

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Final Report

Made in the Future - a conference on leadership, capacity building, evidence and advocacy

16 to 19 June 2002, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, New South Wales

'Made in the Future' is all about planning and forward thinking.  This kind of advance planning embodies the concept of leadership.  Health promotion interventions need to engage with partners, stakeholders and the people directly affected by an initiative to promote health.  The results need to be sustainable over time, hence the importance of capacity building and its link with leadership.

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3 to 6 June 2001, Sheraton Mirage on the Gold Coast, Queensland

Ecological Health Promotion - Living by Principles

The conference theme of Ecological Health Promotion highlights how important it is for health promoters to consider the inextricable links between the environments in which people live, work and play, and their health and well being.  Increasingly we are thinking about the physical environment and its impact on health, but we also need to think about the social, cultural, economic, political and legislative conditions of living that also impact so significantly on health and well being.  Taking an ecological perspective on health promotion means that we think about all of these environments and the interactions between them.  This of course means that our work becomes far more challenging, as we can not afford to ignore any aspect of our ecological system when working with people to make a difference to their lives.

Inequalities in Health - Reflecting Back, Stepping Forward

29 October to 1 November 2000, Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne, Victoria

Perhaps one of the most pressing challenges facing the promotion of health at both the local and global level is the rapidly growing health inequalities.

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Building Social Capital in the 21st Century

23 - 26 May 1999 - Hyatt Regency Hotel, Perth, Western Australia

The 1999 conference program centres on the challenging contemporary theme of building social capital.  Health in the new millennium will be inextricably linked to the processes, networks, institutions and trust that connect us as communities and peoples.  Social capital is the underlying social fabric that binds people together in workplaces, neighbourhoods and communities.  Enhanced social capital enables us to develop the tolerance needed to deal with conflicts, competing interests and challenges of the future.

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