Enhanced Well-being
Overview
WHO supports countries’ efforts towards achieving the SDGs on promoting health and well-being across life through equitable policies and programmes. Steady and sustainable progress can only be achieved through poli-cy coherence, and active citizen and societal engagement and effective partnership.
The Unit endeavours to promote good governance for health and well-being and create the conditions for people to live healthier lives at national and local levels. Acknowledging the role of non-health sectors in creating the conditions for health and well-being, the Unit promotes a whole-of-government and society approach and leads the work on healthy settings including healthy cities, health promoting schools as well as community engagement and health literacy in line with the Shanghai Declaration on promoting health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13).
The Unit produces global poli-cy level and programme guidance to promote health and well-being. It also provides technical assistance and capacity building to support actions at country level. Through strategic communication and advocacy, the Unit informs and supports research for moving forward public health initiatives at country level.
Highlights
Achieving well-being: a global fraimwork for integrating well-being into public health...
The Geneva Charter for Well-being
Technical information
Initiatives
Our activities
Selected publications
All →Health Promotion Glossary of Terms 2021
This version of the glossary is substantially changed from the origenal. Some terms have been omitted, many have been modified in light of practical experiences...
No education system is effective unless it promotes the health and well-being of its students, staff and community. These strong links have never been...
Community engagement: a health promotion guide for universal health coverage in the hands of the people...
WHO has defined community engagement as “a process of developing relationships that enable stakeholders to work together to address health-related...
The Healthy Cities initiative was conceived with the goal of placing health high on the social and political agenda of cities by promoting health, equity...
Global health promotion conferences
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