The Ottawa charter defined health promotion as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health”. Health promotion should aim to making the political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, behavioral and biological factors favourable for health improvements. Equal opportunities and resources such as supportive environments, access to information, life skills, and opportunities to make healthy choices have to be provided for people to take control of health determinants and to achieve equity in health. The health promotion has to go beyond health care systems and include people and organisations from all sectors of life. The need for social justice and equity were reiterated as the most important prerequisites
