PHO Webinar: Promoting Health: A (re)introduction to health promotion

Many health promoters in Ontario have spent the COVID-19 pandemic reassigned to the pandemic response, away from health promotion work. In light of this, Public Health Ontario (PHO) is hosting a three-part webinar series that aims to re-familiarize health promoters with key concepts in health promotion. The series will also benefit professionals in public health and community health who wish to learn more about health promotion.

In the first session of the series, Andrea Bodkin, Senior Program Specialist at PHO, will present core concepts related to health promotion: what health is, what health promotion is, and how the Ottawa Charter is relevant 35 years after its inception. Following this, Julie Slack, Manager (Acting) of Chronic Disease Prevention will discuss how health promotion is practiced at Northwestern Health Unit.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Define health and health promotion.
2. Summarize key historical developments and the evolution of health promotion.
3. Describe the current role of health promotion within the field of public health.

Presenters: Andrea Bodkin and Julie Slack

The presentation can be found here: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en...