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The episode explores key milestones in health promotion and the ongoing challenges in bridging the gap between knowledge and action.

Health isn't created only in hospitals. It's achieved in housing, food systems, workplaces, and political decisions. In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast, host Gordon Thane traces the arc of health promotion through its defining milestones, from the Ottawa Charter to the Geneva Charter, revealing how each global conference pushed the field to see further: beyond behavior, beyond healthcare, beyond borders. Yet the gap between what we know and what we do remains wide. This epis...

People in this episode

Host: Gordon Thane

Topics covered

• health promotion
• global conferences
• public health
• behavior change
• healthcare systems
• political decisions

Keywords

• health promotion
• Ottawa Charter
• Geneva Charter
• public health
• global health
• behavior change
• healthcare
• politics
• food systems
• workplaces

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Organizations: Ottawa Charter, Geneva Charter

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