Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health".
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The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease prevention and control (especially infectious diseases), environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, prevention and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
Prior to his arrival at CGU, Johnson served as the director of the Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research (IPR), and Sidney Garfield Professor of Health Sciences and Professor of Preventive Medicine & Psychology at the University of Southern California (USC).
She was responsible for the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion in 1986, a seminal document in public health, as well as for the subsequent global conferences in health promotion.
She was also involved in the formulation of the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World in 2005, and served on the advisory group for the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health 2011.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that for each dollar spent in health promotion 5 dollars are spared from being spent in treatment.
She received her master's degree in health promotion and exercise science at the Vanderbilt University, and a doctorate degree in preventive health care at the School of Public Health, Loma Linda University in California.
PPH’s most highly cited paper in 2010 was by Mark Dooris (University of Central Lancashire), ‘Holistic and sustainable health improvement: the contribution of the settings-based approach to health promotion’.
The Health Promotion Program started in 2000, and very soon gained the support of famous organizations, such as the World Health Organization, the European Commission, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, the British Medical Association and the National Institute of Urban Affairs.
• 2004 - 2nd Place in Disease Free - Campus Health Promotion Award, by the Department of Health, the Executive Yuan of R.O.C.