Department of Public Health, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.
Glob Health Promot. 2010 Jun;17(2 Suppl):33-6. doi: 10.1177/1757975910363929.
A district hospital in a rural area of the Limpopo Province in South Africa has recently been launched as a 'Health Promoting Hospital', based on the principles of the Ottawa Charter and according to standards developed by WHO-Europe. The initiative was conceived as a project in partnership with stakeholders from the local community and is considered a pilot by Provincial health authorities, representing an advance in health promotion practice in the region. The project was designed as a research intervention, guided by the principles of critical action research integrated with the Precede-Proceed model for the systematic evaluation of health promotion and education. This commentary reports on the process undertaken in successfully transforming this community-based hospital into a Health Promoting Hospital by integrating the concept, values and standards of health promotion into its structure and culture, thereby creating a healthy setting and promoting the health and wellbeing of the hospital's staff, its patients, and their relatives.
南非林波波省一个农村地区的区医院最近被宣布成为“促进健康医院”，其基础是《渥太华宪章》的原则，并根据世卫组织欧洲区域制定的标准。这一举措是作为与当地社区利益攸关方合作的一个项目构想的，被省级卫生当局视为试点，代表着该地区在促进健康实践方面的进步。该项目是作为一个研究干预措施设计的，以批判性行动研究的原则为指导，结合促进健康和教育的前导-实施模式，对其进行系统评估。本评论报告了成功地将这家基于社区的医院转变为促进健康医院的过程，方法是将促进健康的概念、价值观和标准融入其结构和文化，从而创造一个健康的环境，并促进医院工作人员、患者及其家属的健康和福利。
