Principles, methodology and practices of investment for health

Abstract

for her contribution.(The views expressed in the paper are not necessarily those of the organisations for which the authors work) 'he WHO Regional Office for Europe has systematically t attempted to develop tools, methodologies and t demonstration projects aimed at addressing how investment for health (IFH) can become a viable approach to the implementation of an effective health promotion strategy. This report offers a synthesis of the main lessons learned from this effort so far. It refers both to the Verona Initiative: Investing for Health:the Economic, Social and Human Environmerct (http://www.who.dkNerona/main.htm). developed in the last three years by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and to a series of demonstration projects across the European Region.

Do infrastructures impact on alcohol policy making?

“…The importance of building and strengthening infrastructures within the field of public health has increasingly been recognized internationally [1–6] and a call to build capacity has been raised, along with alcohol policy, as a specific public health topic [7–9]. Explanations for the enormous health gap between eastern and western European countries were found in the institutional infrastructure (as the ‘causes of the causes’) [7].…”

“…One such tool is the appraisal of Investment for Health (IFH), a service of the WHO Regional Office for Europe to its Member States that assesses a country's health promotion effort and advises on the construction of a strategy [12]. Thereby, IFH helps to identify and strengthen assets important to health promotion including, among others, ‘strengthening of health promoting infrastructures and decision‐making’[3,12]. Infrastructures are, accordingly, one important priority and critical when investing in health.…”

O movimento da promoção da saúde na década de 1990: um estudo do seu desenvolvimento e difusão na saúde pública brasileira

“…O tema promoção da saúde tem sido proposto no campo da saúde pública brasileira em diversos fóruns -congressos, seminários, oficinas, workshops, cursos de pós-graduação -considerado como um "novo" paradigma de saúde, capaz de superar a visão biomédica• que, até a atualidade, se limitou a pensar a saúde apenas como ausência de doença. As óbvias limitações da visão biomédica nas práticas de saúde têm sido amplamente discutidas por vários estudiosos (DEJOURS 1986;MENDES 1996;KAWACHI 1997;WESTPHAL 1997b;ZIGLIO 2000). O que aqui se apresenta, como problema para estudo, diz respeito às expectativas que os profissionais da saúde têm quanto à sua utilização, que advogam a promoção da saúde no Brasil.…”