Health Promotion Practice

Health Promotion Practice is conceptualized in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. The foundations of health promotion are building health public policies, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and re-orienting healthy services. Our reports, online courses and webinars build the knowledge, skills and confidence of professionals practicing health promotion in Ontario.

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PHO Rounds: Celebrating 40 year of the Ottawa Charter Part 2: Moving Health Promotion Upstream

In this PHO Rounds, join three dynamic speakers to hear how their organizations work upstream using a stream analogy to describe levels of public health action, where working upstream means addressing the structural and social determinants of health.

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Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention

hpcdip@oahpp.ca

Updated 3 Dec 2025