Fact sheet No 172: Health Promotion - Encouraging healthy systems - Reviewed June 1998 (WHO, 1998, 3 p.): Health Promotion: Encouraging healthy systems: (introduction...)

Fact sheet No 172: Health Promotion - Encouraging healthy systems - Reviewed June 1998 (WHO, 1998, 3 p.)

Health Promotion: Encouraging healthy systems

		*(introduction...)*
		CASE STUDY 1 - Using a tobacco tax to finance health promotion
		CASE STUDY 2 - Health-promoting hospitals
		CASE STUDY 3 - A healthy city in Malaysia

(introduction...)

The World Health Organization (WHO) advocates the “Settings for Health” approach to promote health. Settings for Health builds on the premise that there is a health development potential in practically every organization and/or community which can be fostered through a series of defined strategies and applied across a range of settings. While Fact Sheet No 171 explains the “Settings for Health” approach in detail, four practical examples of innovative health promotion in different settings are outlined below.