RHP&EO is the electronic journal of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education

Equity in Health? A Vital Vision - But Not For All. An Outline Of A Research Framework For Health Promotion To Disadvantaged Groups

Per Tillgren, Bo BurstrOm, Joyce Sulusi-Sjo, Leif Svanstrom

Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, S-172 83 Sundbyberg, Sweden

According to the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986) health promotion should' focus on achieving equity in health. Health promotion action should aim at reducing differences in current health status and at ensuring equal opportunities and resources to enable all people to achieve their fullest health potential. This focus on equity in health promotion corresponds with the first target in WHO EURO Targets for health for all by the year 2 000. In spite of such general health policy objectives and health promotion efforts in the last decade in Sweden and other western countries, inequalities in health have increased. Work has started at the Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, to gain increased knowledge of mechanisms for inequalities in health and to find strategies and methods for health promotion to reach disadvantaged groups. An outline of the framework of this project in the context of health promotion will be presented at the conference.

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