Hospital health promotion

• Other Authors: Sol, Neil 1952- (Editor), Wilson, Philip K. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Published: Champaign, Illinois Human Kinetics Publishers ©1989
• Subjects: Health Promotion > economics > United States; Health Promotion > methods > United States; Health Promotion > organization & administration > United States
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 "Health Promoting Hospitals" (and health services) (HPH) is a hospital reform concept developed in Europe that has also roots in early initiatives of the 1970s and 1980s in the United States under the label of "hospital health promotion." HPH, which is based on the Ottawa Charter (1986) of the World Health Organization (WHO) and is promoted by WHO, was developed and started to be implemented in the late 1980s. The current definition of HPH is that it aims at improving the health outcomes of hospital patients, staff, and community, and at enhancing its health impact on the hospital´s environment. HPH can be understood as a policy concept with a strong research tradition. It builds on two strands of discourse: criticism of medicine for being paternalistic and expertocratic rather than being patient oriented and empowering, and criticism of health-care systems for being too exclusively focused on treatment of disease rather than including prevention and health promotion as well