The document summarizes the 9th global conference on health promotion held in Shanghai, China in 2016. Over 1260 participants from 131 countries attended to discuss how to promote health in the Sustainable Development Goals. The conference highlighted the links between health promotion and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It resulted in the Shanghai Declaration which recognizes health as a political issue and calls for political commitments to protect health through public policies, legislation, fiscal policies, and universal health coverage. The declaration also emphasizes the role of cities and mayors in promoting health through urban policies.

1. PRESENTED BY:
Mohammad Aslam Shaiekh
Master of Public Health (MPH)
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2. International conference on health
promotion
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3. Introduction
This is the 9th global conference on health
promotion 30 years after the first conference on
health promotion in Ottawa Canada
The People’s Republic of China and WHO are the
joint-organizers of the Global Conference on Health
Promotion in Shanghai on 21-24 November 2016
Over 1260 participants from 131 countries,
including 81 ministers and 123 mayors, came to
Shanghai to chart a new path for health promotion
in the era of the SDGs
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The Conference is entitled “Promoting health
in the Sustainable Development Goals: Health
for all and all for health,”
“Health promotion is about enabling and
empowering people, communities and societies
to take change of their own health and quality
of life.”
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The message from shanghai declaration was :
health is a political issue and, therefore,
political choices and commitments are crucial
The Shanghai Declaration recognizes health
and well-being as essential to achieving
sustainable development
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6. Goals
To highlight the critical links between
promoting health and the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development
Objectives
1. To provide guidance to Member States on
how to reflect promoting health into national
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)
responses, and how to accelerate progress on
SDG targets
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2. Exchange national experiences in:
strengthening good governance for health through
action across government sectors
broadening and strengthening social mobilization;
and
promoting health literacy
3. To highlight the crucial role that cities – and
municipal leaders, especially Mayors – play in
promoting health (creating Healthy Cities), in the
context of an increasingly urbanized global
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9. Commitment of Shanghai
Declaration
1. Apply fully the mechanisms available to
government to protect health and promote
wellbeing through public policies
2. Strengthen legislation, regulation and taxation of
unhealthy commodities
3. Implement fiscal policies as a powerful tool to
enable new investments in health and wellbeing
including strong public health systems
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4. Introduce universal health coverage as an
efficient way to achieve both health and
financial protection
5. Ensure transparency and social accountability
and enable the broad engagement of civil
society
6. Strengthen global governance to better
address cross border health issues
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7. Consider the growing importance and value
of traditional medicine, which could contribute to
improved health outcomes, including those in the
SDGs
8. Prioritize policies that create co benefits between
health and wellbeing and other city policies, making
full use of social innovation and interactive
technologies
9. Support cities to promote equity and social inclusion,
harnessing (combination) the knowledge, skills and
priorities of their diverse populations through strong
community engagement
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10.Re-orient health and social services
to optimize fair access and put people and
communities at the centre
11.Recognize health literacy as a critical
determinant of health and invest in its
development
12.Develop, implement and monitor
intersectoral national and local strategies for
strengthening health literacy in all
populations and in all educational settings
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13.Increase citizens’ control of their own health
and its determinants, through harnessing the
potential of digital technology
14.Ensure that consumer environments support
healthy choices through pricing policies,
transparent information and clear labelling
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14. Healthy City action areas
1. Work to deliver the basic needs of residents
(education, housing, employment and security).
2. Take measures to eliminate pollution and tackle
climate change at the local level by making
industries and cities green and ensure clean energy
and air.
3. Invest in our children, prioritize early child
development and ensure that city policies and
programs in health, education and social services
leave no child behind.
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4. Make our environment safe for women and girls,
especially protecting them from harassment and
gender-based violence
5. Improve the health and quality of life of the urban
poor, slum and informal settlement dweller, and
migrants and refugees – and ensure their access to
affordable housing and health care
6. Address multiple forms of discrimination, against
people living with disabilities or with HIV AIDS,
older people, and others
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7. Make our environments smoke free, legislating to
make indoor public places and public transport
smoke-free, and banning all forms of tobacco
advertising, promotion and sponsorship in our cities.
8. Design our cities to promote sustainable urban
mobility, walking and physical activity through
attractive and green neighborhoods, active transport
infrastructure, strong road safety laws, and
accessible play and leisure facilities.
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9. Implement sustainable and safe food policies that
increase access to affordable healthy food and safe
water, reduce sugar and salt intake, and reduce the
harmful use of alcohol including through
regulation, pricing, education and taxation
10. Make our cities safe from infectious disease
through ensuring immunization, clean water,
sanitation, waste management and vector control
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18. Call to action
It recognize that health is a political choice and will
counteract interests detrimental to health and
remove barriers to empowerment - especially for
women and girls.
It urge political leaders from different sectors and
from different levels of governance, from the private
sector and from civil society to join them in their
determination to promote health and wellbeing in all
the SDGs.
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Promoting health demands coordinated action
by all concerned, it is a shared responsibility.
With this Shanghai Declaration, the
participants, pledge to accelerate the
implementation of the SDGs through increased
political commitment and financial investment
in health promotion.
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22. THANK YOU
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