THE NAIROBI CALL TO ACTION FOR CLOSING THE IMPLEMENTATION GAP IN HEALTH PROMOTION

Abstract

The 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion with the theme “Promoting health and development,closing the implementation gap” was held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 26-30 October, 2009. As an immediate outcome, “Nairobi Call to Action” was released at the end of the conference. The main theme of the conference aimed to clarify key strategies and commitments of each country in order to narrow its major implementation gaps in health and development through health promotion. Five urgent responsibilities were identified in the Call, which was based on the collective views of more than 600 international on-site delegates and online participants from more than a hundred countries. We would like to introduce the whole document and its Japanese translation to the Journal readers (It was translated by Koji Kanda, Hiroko Yamashina, Masamine Jimba, Keiko Otsuka, and Hidehiko Tamashiro).