Key Milestones of International and Canadian Health Promotion

Question 1

What is the key milestone from 1951?

Answer 1

• Foundation and first global conference of the international union for health education (IUHE)

Question 2

What is the key milestone from 1974?

Answer 2

• The Lalonde Report
• Release of A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians

Question 3

What are the milestones of 1978?

Answer 3

• Alma-Ata conference on Primary Health Care, co-organized by the World Health Organizations and UNICEF
• Creation of Canadian ‘Health Promotion Directorate’: first national body of its kind in the world

Question 4

What is the milestone from 1979?

Answer 4

• World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization’s adoption of its “Health for All by the Year 2000” resolution

Question 5

What is the key milestone of 1985?

Answer 5

• Healthy Community Initiatives Canada
• Healthy Cities Programs Europe

Question 6

Key Milestones of 1986?

Answer 6

• First World Health Organization (WHO) international conference of health promotion in Ottawa
• Release of Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and of Achieving Health for All (Epp Report)

Question 7

Key Milestones 1994?

Answer 7

Publication of two influential books:
- Health promotion in Canada (Pederson)
- Why are some people healthy and other not? (Evans)

Question 8

Key Milestone of 1995?

Answer 8

• Creation of Canadian ‘Population Health Directorate’
• Replaced ‘Health Promotion Directorate’

Question 9

Key Milestones of 2004?

Answer 9

• Creation of the Public Health Agency of Canada

Question 10

Key Milestones of 2007?

Answer 10

• Nineteenth Global Conference of the International Union for Health Promotion and Health Education (IUHPE) - In Vancouver

Question 11

Describe the Timeline from 1951 to 2007

Answer 11

1951 - Foundation/Conference International Union for Health Education (IUHE)
1974 - Lalonde Report
1978 - Health Promotion Directorate
1979 - Health for All by the Year 2000
1985 - Healthy Communities Initiatives
1986 - Ottawa Charter
1994 - Publication of Books
1995 - Population Health Directorate
2004 - Creation Public Health Agency of Canada
2007 - IUHPE Conference, Vancouver (19th)