This offer is simply too good to be true. Nothing new to learn, no development of new strategies, methods, research protocols, and training modules, because everything has been developed in the past and is easily accessible for those who want to access it. Public Health and you have access to these materials. The development of the Ottawa Charter started in the early 1980s in the WHO Regional Office for Europe. Social action for health instead of preventive programs against diseases.
Health stands for substantially more than physiological parameters can display.
And it encompasses more than a prevention program for non-communicable diseases is able to deal with. Way back in the early 1980s we had learnt the lesson that medical expertise may be useful with regard to the treatment of diseases, but it falls much too short when it comes to the promotion of health. Health relates to life, and life relates to land, and land relates to spirituality, and spirituality relates to health. Now that sounds pretty strange in the era of economic rationalism and global policy projects aiming at the global shopping mall and TV station. We don't need no empowerment of people, is the message sent out by the powerful ones.