In 1978, during an international conference on primary health care, the Alma Ata Declaration called for action by all governments, to 'protect and promote the health of all people', this first international declaration supported the need for primary healthcare internationally, and this approach was key to achieving the goal of 'health for all' (Organization World Health Organization, n.d.). Later, on November 21, 1986, the World Health Organization held the first international conference on health promotion in Ottawa, Canada. This conference was organized in response to growing health expectations around the world and to build on an earlier “Health for All by the Year 2000” initiative launched in 1981 (World Health Organization, 1986). The “Ottawa Charter” emphasized the idea of health promotion as a process that would enable people to “increase control over and improve their health” (World Health Organization, 1986). This Charter was established to provide some guidelines or framework to enable organizations to develop health promotion strategies and empower the public
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