9th Global Conference on Health Promotion kicks off in Shanghai

Shanghai (People's Daily Online) -- The 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion has begun in Shanghai on Nov. 21, 2016.

With the goal of highlighting critical links between health initiatives and the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, the conference will provide an unprecedented opportunity to reassert the significance of health and health promotion at the historical moment of the Ottawa Charter’s 30-year anniversary, as well as in the first year of implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It will direct and guide member states on the practical application of evidence-based health promotion concepts and techniques for achieving SDGs.

Participants include those working on health initiatives from WHO member states, representatives of UN agencies, several countries' health and social affairs ministers, Healthy City mayors and experts in international health and sustainable development.

The conference, led by WHO, rotates host cities every three to four years. This year’s conference is the first one held in China, the country with the world’s biggest population and thus the toughest challenge when it comes to health.

The 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion began on Nov. 21 and will last for three and a half days.