Article
Health promotion research in the United Nations' Post-2015 agenda
Health Promotion International
(2015)
Abstract
The health promotion community has an important role to play in the development and implementation of global development goals. This issue of our Journal shows how we align our efforts with global relevance and a broad vision of health promotion research and action.
The 65th Annual United Nations Department of Public Information/Nongovernmental Organization (DPI/NGO) conference took place at the UN headquarters in New York from 27 to 29 August 2014. The title this year—‘2015 and Beyond: Our Action Agenda’—reflected its goal of examining ‘The role of civil society in the post-2015 development agenda’ (UN DPI/NGO, 2014a).
Over 4000 NGOs participated in person at the conference, with even more following sessions online (UN DPI/NGO, 2014b). The conference brought together diverse interest groups in sessions discussing poverty eradication, inequity, sustainable development, human rights, climate change and a range of other topics. The content of the conference was timely, but the process of participant engagement was equally of note. Twice-daily roundtable sessions were held where the Declaration Drafting Committee would take, entertain and discuss additions and deletions to the Conference Declaration, which would be the official recommendation of the conference participants on the Post-2015 agenda.
Keywords
- Health promotion,
- Global health
Disciplines
Publication Date
March 1, 2015
DOI
10.1093/heapro/dau115
Citation Information
J. Hope Corbin. "Health promotion research in the United Nations' Post-2015 agenda" Health Promotion International Vol. 30 Iss. 1 (2015) p. 1 - 4 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hope_corbin/21/