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About the Health Promotion Hub
The Health Promotion Hub at Health Nexus supports individuals, organizations
and communities working with broad populations or specific groups,
to encourage and strengthen their capacity in health promotion,
drawing upon their own assets to promote health and well-being.
Organizations include those in the health sector such as public
health units and CHCs, as well as other NGOs and groups from diverse
communities.
We recognize that in today's society, overall
health status is linked to circumstances beyond an individual's
control, often outside of the health system itself. We work from
a strong population-based prevention and health promotion perspective
of helping people to increase control over the conditions that
affect their health. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion provides
the framework for our work.
We are involved in both formal as well as informal
collaborations with groups from a range of sectors. We have strong
networks with broader health initiatives and stay in close contact
with community activists, researchers, health promoters, government
colleagues, policy makers and educators working in the field of
health promotion locally, nationally and internationally. We provide
strategic consultation to provincial associations and facilitate
the wide dissemination of this information through our e-bulletins
OHPE and le
Bloc Notes. We are a significant partner in provincial and national
health promotion initiatives such as the Best
Practices in Health Promotion, the Health
Promotion Summer School and the Ontario
Inclusion Learning Network.
The Health Promotion Hub is one of 21 resource
centres working within the broader goals of the Ontario Health Promotion
Resource System serving to build capacity for the promotion of health
in Ontario. We are funded by the Ministry of Health Promotion of
the Government of Ontario.
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